Chen Wenlong and the other craftsmen all looked at Xiao Ming at this time. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

After the briquette furnace and the lathe, Xiao Ming once again proposed a shocking skill.

Especially the craftsmen, they have been proficient in this way all their lives, and the skills handed down from their ancestors have never changed, and now Xiao Ming has completely subverted their cognition.

"Yes, the steel produced by the steel filling method is very mature in terms of technology, but such steel needs to be forged repeatedly to improve the strength of the steel, which is too much time waste." Xiao Ming said: "I am now teaching you that the blast furnace ironmaking will build two, the two are connected, one of them is smelted pig iron, and the pig iron will be purified into wrought iron when it enters the other blast furnace, so that the iron smelting will form a scale." ”

Chen Wenlong asked the craftsmen to stop what they were doing, sat on the ground, and listened carefully to Xiao Ming again, now this kind of knowledge transfer is commonplace in the equipment department, and Chen Wenlong and the craftsmen are also familiar with it.

Xiao Ming held the stone pen that Chen Wenlong had prepared, a kind of stone similar to chalk that could draw white handwriting, and in front of him was a black stone slab, and he generally spoke while drawing the structure of the blast furnace.

The craftsmen are serious, and every time Xiao Ming teaches skills, they have a sense of epiphany, and they can quickly master these unfamiliar skills.

Now the boring machines, drilling machines, milling machines, and grinding machines manufactured in the equipment department are all manufactured according to the drawings drawn by Xiao Ming and the images in their memory, and after the initial trial, these lathes are basically successful.

For example, the drilling machine, which is a lathe that drills holes in the fittings, successfully punched holes in the iron sheet of the gas stove.

Another example is the boring machine, this kind of lathe can boring the hole drilled by the drilling machine, in Xiao Ming's words, these two lathes can process a solid steel into something like a steel pipe.

This is because a drilling machine can drill a hole in a solid steel, while a boring machine can boring this hole into a tube.

Although they didn't understand what Xiao Ming's steel pipe was, they always felt that it was a very powerful thing.

Suddenly, an hour passed, Xiao Ming's mouth was a little dry, and he finished talking about the skills of blast furnace ironmaking.

"Your Highness, in this way, how should we control the heat of coke refining?" At this time, a craftsman suddenly asked.

This is a very young craftsman, every time Xiao Ming teaches, this young craftsman is always the most serious, and seems to be very enthusiastic about the skills that Xiao Ming taught.

However, perhaps because of his fear of Xiao Ming, this craftsman never took the initiative to ask questions, and this time Xiao Ming brushed aside the coke, and he couldn't help but ask.

"What's your name?" Xiao Ming is very interested in this young craftsman who is the same age as himself, and in his opinion, only with a heart of knowledge will a person be enthusiastic about his career.

And this young craftsman was clearly passionate about the equipment department.

Chen Wenlong looked embarrassed at this time, and said to Xiao Ming: "Your Highness, he is Chen Qi, the dog of the lower official, and he doesn't know etiquette, I hope Your Highness won't blame you." ”

After saying that, he yelled at the young craftsman, "Stand down, when will it be your turn to speak here." ”

Chen Qi frowned, and said dissatisfiedly: "Dad, I just asked about the heat of the coke, if it is confused, if the coke is burned, how much loss will it cause to the equipment department." ”

Chen Wenlong was about to scold, Xiao Ming suddenly stopped him, he looked at Chen Qi with satisfaction and said: "Chen Qi is right, this skill must be more real, this lathe is said to be made by Chen Qi and other craftsmen?" ”

"Your Highness, this is true." Chen Longwen shook his head, Chen Qi has always disliked reading, but he is only interested in these strange things.

Xiao Ming beckoned to Chen Qi, "Yes, your head is very flexible, would you like to be the head craftsman of the Instrument Division?" ”

Chen Qi was overjoyed when he heard this, but just looked at Chen Wenlong worriedly.

Without waiting for Chen Longwen to say nonsense such as Chen Qi's young age, Xiao Ming said directly: "Then it's decided, one tael of silver every month, and you will lead the work of the things I will explain in the future." ”

"Yes, Your Highness." Chen Qi said excitedly, this craftsman will be a soldier if he takes another step.

In the past, his father Chen Longwen had always disliked him studying this way, but now that he was so appreciated by King Qi, he suddenly became arrogant.

However, before the question should be asked, he said, "Your Highness, you haven't said what kind of heat you need for smoldering coke. ”

"It's 30% lower than when it was iron-making." Xiao Ming said that it takes about 1,400 degrees to make iron, and about 1,000 degrees of coke, "Try it boldly, and it's okay if it burns." ”

Chen Qi said loudly: "Yes, Your Highness." ”

The matter of blast furnace ironmaking is explained, and this blast furnace still needs time to be built, and he hopes that Qian Dafu can bring back the good news of graphite at that time.

In this way, he can combine blast furnace ironmaking and crucible steelmaking into a production line.

Next, Xiao Ming went to check the lathes, these lathes were all antique-grade lathes of the seventeenth century in his world, hand-powered.

Moreover, the drill bits of the lathe are also steel tools forged by craftsmen, and these tools are enough to process some rough accessories.

Looking at the various lathes in front of him, Xiao Ming felt a little more comfortable, with these lathes, he could produce some small parts, and these small parts can be assembled into the oldest simple machine - clock.

In his opinion, the foundation of industry in his time began with the watchmaker, because from this time on, all kinds of sophisticated accessories entered the stage of history.

As for such things as guns, Xiao Ming thought about it, but he understood that it would be a little unrealistic in a few years.

As the saying goes, when the cannon goes off, there are ten thousand taels of gold, not to mention that the current fiefdom is poor and white, but technically, Xiao Ming can't afford the long cycle of making a gun by hand lathe, basically doing this before the steam engine appeared, which is almost equivalent to a joke.

So now Xiao Ming has set a plan, everything is for production, and when his fiefdom is rich, with a preliminary large-scale factory and industrial system, these things can be built with a commensurate economic size.

Because in Xiao Ming's view, war is fought with money and resources, otherwise once the ammunition is exhausted, everything will be nonsense, and it is too unrealistic to abandon production and exhaust material resources to do this.

Therefore, for the sake of today, it is necessary to build fiefdoms, and of course the army must also be strengthened, one is to defend against the steppe barbarians, and the other is for the bandits in winter.

According to past experience, every winter, when food is hard to find, it is a time when thieves are numerous.