"Hydraulic hammer?"

Chen Qi was pleasantly surprised, these two words were something he had never heard before. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

But he had become accustomed to Xiao Ming constantly creating these magical machines in the Instrument Division, which was a kind of satisfaction for him.

Xiao Ming nodded, he found a chair to sit down, gave Chen Qi a seat, and then told Chen Qi about the knowledge of this plate armor and hydraulic forging hammer.

Plate armor, which appeared in the 16th century and was obsolete by firearms, has been the subject of controversy throughout history, and the debate about the strongest armor has never stopped.

But Xiao Ming believed that war would only eliminate backward armor.

In the long Middle Ages in the West, after countless wars, the knights of the West finally chose plate armor, then it can only be shown that the cost performance of plate armor is much higher than that of other armor.

And after the Middle Ages, the advent of hydraulic forging hammers made it possible to mass-produce plate armor.

The word forging has appeared since the concept of steel, the so-called electric hammering, it is the forging of steel, the more times the forging, the better the quality of the steel.

As a result, there is a saying that there is a hundred steels, and this needs to be forged, simply put, it is to repeatedly hit the iron with a sledgehammer, so that the quality of the iron continues to rise.

However, this method of manpower sledgehammer made the production of armor weapons very efficient, so the West appeared for the first time with hydraulic forging hammers, and some scholars believe that this is the beginning of Western military science and technology to catch up with the East.

Now Xiao Ming is preparing to copy the hydraulic forging hammer.

Before the advent of the steam engine, he had to use the power of hydraulic power to lay the prototype of the industrial foundation, because he needed a hydraulic forging hammer to make metal materials of sufficient strength, and at the same time increase the production of lathes and other machinery, Xiao Ming only had a small number of lathes.

This is far from what he expected.

In general, he needed hydrodynamic power to stock up on all the materials for the manufacture of steam engines, materials, high-strength knives, and so on.

Xiao Ming was talking about Chen Qi becoming more and more excited, the slow forging work of the craftsmen had long made him unable to cope with the increasing steel orders, and now the machine designed by Xiao Ming completely solved his problem.

"Your Highness, if the hydraulic forging hammer is produced, it can increase the forging by at least thirty times." Chen Qi said excitedly.

"No, forty times." Xiao Ming said that he checked the information, and the hydraulic forging hammer directly increased the work efficiency of the blacksmith by forty times, and this hydraulic forging hammer can complete hundreds of strikes in one minute.

However, the only drawback of the hydraulic hammer is the instability of the power, after all, the water flow is unstable, but even so, it is enough for him to use at this stage.

After a detailed explanation, Chen Qi basically remembered the manufacturing method of hydraulic forging hammer, in fact, the power of hydraulic machinery is basically universal, that is, similar to the bull power overturn, as long as it rotates, it can produce power, gears, bearings, these things are not bad, but the work pieces are different.

Therefore, Chen Qi, who successfully made a bull power overturn, said that this is not a difficult job.

Moreover, during this time he observed and came to the conclusion that the ancients were definitely not stupid, and their intelligence was not inferior to that of modern people, and the only flaw was their lack of education and knowledge.

In their familiar field, they are not inferior to modern people in poetry, writing, painting, and even strategy.

As the saying goes, a little bit is thorough, and the current ancients almost had someone click on it, and it is this role he plays.

Realizing the importance of hydraulic forging hammers, Chen Qi focused on manufacturing hydraulic forging hammers, thanks to the cheap processing of lathes, the manufacturing of hydraulic forging hammers was very smooth, but even so, the first hydraulic forging hammer had to be assembled after a month, because the composition of hydraulic forging hammers is still very complicated.

Xiao Ming believed in Chen Qi's ability very much, and this matter was naturally handed over to Chen Qi, and when Chen Qi didn't understand, he would come to the school to ask him, and the two discussed it together.

During this period, he taught the school normally, but he asked Lu Tong and others to start the first chemical production, extracting alkali from plant ash.

This work was originally a matter for the servants and equipment department in the palace, but now Xiao Ming has completely stripped this matter out in order to refine the industrial system.

Moreover, during this time, soap production workshops sprung up in Qingzhou, and the demand for alkali increased greatly for a while, which is also the reason why he took out the alkali alone for production.

Otherwise, he would have been annoyed to death by the businessman who came to buy alkali.

"Thank you, Your Highness."

Another batch of alkali was shipped out of the palace, and the merchants who bought the alkali were smiling, but they were also in pain.

Because alkali is so expensive, basically they have to account for more than half of the cost of producing soap, and then sell this soap, they can only earn one or two silver.

"Well, if we can learn how to produce this alkali, won't we be rich?"

As he walked away, one merchant said to another.

"Learn? How to learn? It is said that this alkali is not produced in the workshop area, but only in the courtyard next door to the palace, which is not accessible to everyone. “

"Yes, but it is said that there are 200 students living in it, and they go out once a week, and if you bribe, it may be ......"

"Don't think about it, these people are followed by guards every time they go out, and it's impossible for outsiders to approach."

"Ah......" the merchant sighed.

At this time, Pang Yukun passed in front of the two businessmen, and when he heard this, he couldn't help but sneer, and said secretly: These businessmen are really interested in their interests and unscrupulous means.

After entering the palace, he saw Xiao Ming, and first repeated the conversation of the businessmen outside to Xiao Ming.

"The tricks of these merchants are clear to this king, in addition to this method, they also deliberately resold slaves to Liang Dahai, wanting these slaves to mix into the workshop area, hmph, they underestimate me too much, they only let them in and out."

Pang Yukun said: "I reminded His Highness about this matter, not to talk about craftsmanship, but now that Qingzhou is becoming more and more mixed, His Highness should also establish his own secret guard." ”

Xiao Ming's expression was overcast, and he said: "It's not that this king doesn't want to, but there is no suitable candidate." ”

The secret guard in Pang Yukun's mouth is actually an institution similar to the Jinyi Guard of the Ming Dynasty, that is, a modern intelligence system, without these people, Xiao Ming is equal to the Great Yu Kingdom is blind and knows nothing.

For example, he didn't know anything about the horse smuggling case revealed by the Wang family this time.

Pang Yukun thought of this, and he thought that he was stimulated by this incident.

"Your Highness, I came here for this matter, and you must be very interested in someone under the Lower Ranks." Pang Yukun said with a smile.

Xiao Ming remembered that Pang Yukun wanted to find talents for himself, and he said: "Pang Changshi has a suitable candidate?" Who is it? “