232 Li Zixiao's industrial dream

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In the era of the late Ming Dynasty, it was a luxury for people like these people living at the bottom to eat a meal of meat.

Therefore, Li Zixiao's order to add meat to dinner tonight made everyone very happy, and there was also laughter and laughter in Baihu Village.

And Li Zixiao also led the generals to gather the main responsible persons of the craftsmen, including Wei Laofuzi, Sun Tong, and Tie Pingliang, and arranged a few simple drinks and dishes in the simple house, and drank with them.

Early the next morning, Li Zixiao got up early as usual and had a morning exercise in the courtyard.

Although he has a bad foundation, he has a strong physique, and he has a master like Quartz who has always given guidance, and at this time, Li Zixiao's set of punches and feet is also a tiger, and he is very bluffing.

But Li Zixiao himself knows that he is barely a fist embroidered leg, and he can still deal with ordinary little minions, but if he really meets a master, he is not enough to see.

However, Li Zixiao doesn't care, he practices boxing scripts just to strengthen his body, and he doesn't plan to fight in person, he is the chief general of an army, and he has thousands of men and horses, and he has to go into battle to kill the enemy in person!

After a set of punches, his body became hot, and hot air came out of his head, and then he took the big gun that Quartz sent him, and played around with the gun in the courtyard.

At this time, when Li Zixiao noticed the stream flowing out of the mountain in the village, his eyes suddenly lit up.

Li Zixiao suddenly stopped beside the stream, carefully looked at the surrounding terrain, pointed to the location of the upper reaches of the stream, and said to Old Master Wei: "Old man Sun, this stream is a godsend for us!"

This stream not only solves the problem of drinking water for people and animals in our Baihu Village, but also provides enough power for our various workshops. ”

Sun Tong immediately turned his head and asked a few of his craftsmen, and a middle-aged craftsman immediately stood up and replied: "No problem, little Xu Tianhou has been learning carpentry from my father since he was a child."

In the past, in many places, various waterwheels were made for man. Do you want to build a watermill here? Small ones can be made! ”

Li Zixiao immediately nodded and said, "It seems that we are Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon here!" There are all kinds of crafts, very good, they are all talents. Let's go up the stream, and we'll talk about it after we've seen it. ”

As he spoke, he led his group and walked upstream along the stream that passed through the village.

The water volume of this stream flowing through Baihu Village is quite good, and Li Zixiao's initial idea is to see if he can make good use of this stream.

Building a waterwheel on it, so that it can provide stable and reliable power for the workshops in the cottage, will be of great benefit to Tie Pingliang and his large-scale construction of new bird guns.

With Li Zixiao and his party, they walked up along this nameless stream, and soon found that when this stream flowed through Baihu Village from the mountain, there were four steps-like drops.

Li Zixiao stopped at a place where the water of the stream was dropping, and said to the people around him: "Big guy, looking down from here, this stream has formed a total of four drops in Baihu Village, and the water flow is very fast, but it is still not suitable to build a water wheel."

I thought for a moment that a few small dikes could be built here and in the two places below to cut off the stream and form three large reservoirs.

Then, using the water flow, at least a few large waterwheels can be built along the way, and many small waterwheels can be built.

In this way, whether we strike iron or grind dough, it can be easily solved.

Now in our cottage, the iron is all made by manpower, and the flour is all grinded by animal power, which is too manpower-consuming.

As long as the waterwheel is built, it can save a lot of manpower and animal power, and the output will increase significantly!

So I plan, during this time, we Baihu Village will first concentrate a part of the labor, not too much, two or three hundred people, build a dam here, build a waterwheel, what do you think of this matter? ”

Sun Tong and his craftsmen also began to carefully observe the terrain here, and after looking at it, they felt that Li Zixiao's idea was indeed good.

If the cistern is built and a waterwheel is built, then there will be no benefit to the blacksmith's shop.

The mill alone saves a lot of animal power, and can greatly increase the output of the mill, so Li Zixiao said that it was unanimously supported by almost everyone here.

For the construction of the dam, many people were involved, carpenters, stonemasons, and masons all had a part.

Fortunately, in the past year, the White Dragon Army has absorbed and recruited many skilled craftsmen, and the White Dragon Army is not lacking in this kind of talent at present.

With Li Zixiao's instructions, the old man Sun Tong is now full of energy, just do what he says, and immediately arrange for people to start checking the terrain here, choosing the location of the dam, calculating the amount of work here, and so on.

Li Zixiao can't help with these things, his current status, he only needs to give orders, arrange the work is enough, and in terms of details, he has professionals of this era to complete.

In the past few days, Li Zixiao has traveled to all the places in Baihu Village and has a detailed understanding of the various construction situations here.

Soon, Li Zixiao admired the wisdom of the craftsmen in this era, but he was also anxious about the low productivity of this era.

In the past, he was only busy fighting wars, smashing the encirclement and suppression of the government, and busy grabbing money and grain everywhere to feed such a large group of people.

He rarely cares about things like this, and he doesn't have the energy and time to take care of them.

However, at present, Li Zixiao has decided to serve the imperial court, and the next two or three years will be his dormant period and a period of vigorous development.

At this time, his focus also began to shift to construction, so Li Zixiao, who was accustomed to large-scale mechanized production in later generations, felt very uncomfortable when he looked at the completely manual craftsmanship of this era.

Originally, many things would have been easy to do if there were machines.

But now, it has to be made by craftsmen by hand, which not only has low effectiveness, but also the quality of the finished product cannot be completely unified, and the quality of the product cannot be guaranteed.

In particular, the work of the blacksmith to build weapons and bird guns has a high scrap rate.

Take the bird gun as an example, if you want to create a qualified finished product, you need to waste more than 50% of the raw materials, or even more than 80% of the raw materials, in order to obtain a so-so qualified gun.

And this kind of waste is simply unacceptable to him, you must know that it is not easy for the White Dragon Army to get iron at this time.

Except for a small amount of iron materials from Yongcheng County, several iron mines that have just been restored, and most of the iron materials, Bailongjun still needs to purchase them from Xuzhou and other places at a high price at this time.

This kind of purchase price is high, even if Li Zixiao has hundreds of thousands of taels of silver in his hand at this time, he can't bear such consumption for a long time.

Therefore, this is also Li Zixiao's recent instruction to Qian Guangyuan that after the end of the summer harvest, the production of all mines and iron-making furnaces in Yongcheng County must be resumed as soon as possible.

Li Zixiao walked down in Baihu Village in the past few days, and his biggest feeling was his yearning for machinery.

However, he also understands that no matter how anxious he is, it is not a simple matter to make a machine, and it is not an overnight thing.

The large-scale mechanized production of later generations has also gone through hundreds of years and several eras, and has developed bit by bit.

From the initial steam engine to the later internal combustion engine, it is impossible to achieve it overnight without decades of accumulation and development.

However, when Li Zixiao came to this era at this time, it was different.

Although he can't build advanced steel machinery right away, and even he doesn't know much about many mechanical principles, but that's okay.

But at least he can guide his craftsmen to start Huaxia's own industrial start from now on, so that the development of Huaxia's industry will avoid detours.

In this way, maybe it will not take hundreds of years to take a long time, and it will only take a few decades for China to enter the era of great industry.

Like a steam engine, as long as Li Zixiao is given a little time, he can build it, and he also understands the principle of the internal combustion engine, although it is a little troublesome.

It can be said that as long as Li Zixiao is given a stable environment, sufficient resources that can be deployed, enough time, and a large number of talents, he will be able to lead China into the industrial age in a short period of time.

This is also Li Zixiao's second wish in addition to killing the Guanwai Tartars and recasting the Chinese Empire.

However, in order to do all this, the most important premise is the need for a stable environment, and to put it bluntly, Li Zixiao is needed to calm down this troubled era and unify China.

Even if you can't unify China, you must at least occupy a large enough territory, so that you can do it.

Fortunately, Li Zixiao is still young at this time, and there is enough time left for him, and he can slowly realize all the ambitions in his heart.

Now, he has proposed to build a dam in Baihu Village and build a waterwheel, which is the first step to obtaining usable machinery.

Li Zixiao knew that at this time, it would take at least more than 100 years for Western European society to enter the industrial age, and this was the opportunity left for Li Zixiao.

He hoped that in his lifetime, he would be able to see Huaxia's own steel giant ship sailing the sea, and he also wanted to do something to open the door to the Western world with strong ships and cannons.

I also want to dry and loot Buckingham Palace, Versailles and Pulau Palace, and then let people burn them all to ashes when they leave.

He also wants to incorporate the fertile lands of the American continent and the Australian continent on the other side of the ocean into the territory of Greater China, so as to lay an endless land for future generations.

Now he has to take the first step in guiding his craftsmen in the direction of machinery, encouraging them to make reliable machines instead of manual work.

Li Zixiao believes that with the ingenuity and ingenuity of ancient Chinese craftsmen, as long as they are given conditions and resources, they will definitely be able to create an industrial civilization that is not inferior to Westerners.

The rulers of ancient China paid too little attention to these craftsmen, and regarded these technologies as strange and ingenious skills, and did not explore the potential of these strange and obscene skills at all.

In this life, Li Zixiao has such an opportunity, and he will never make such an ignorant mistake again.

Now, they first use hydraulic power to gradually obtain some hydraulic machinery, let the craftsmen design some simple machinery, and then gradually build other machinery.

And designing some simple mechanical aspects is not a problem for Li Zixiao, and it can even be said to be a matter of hand.

However, if you want to build these machines, I am afraid that there will be many problems involved, and the most important thing is the problem of materials.

This requires steel of various hardnesses, and obtaining these materials is by no means a simple matter, and this alone is enough for Li Zixiao to have a headache.

First and foremost, in order to make machinery, even the simplest machinery, it is necessary to make steel, and thus steelmaking.

At present, although Yongcheng County is rich in iron ore resources, there is also a large amount of iron ore in the local area.

At the same time, there are small iron-making furnaces built in several villages and towns, which can make iron and raw iron, but this is only the foundation.

If you want to obtain a large amount of steel, especially those with high hardness, which is an important material for making machinery, the current conditions are simply not up to it.

And this time, he asked Tie Pingliang to create a new type of bird gun, and the reason why it took so long to create the first new type of bird gun.

The key is not that Tie Pingliang has no ability, but that before creating a new type of bird, Tie Pingliang must rebuild a complete set of basic tools.

This not only involves the mold problem required to create the bird's gun, but also the material used to create the mold.

The hardness of the mold must be large enough, and the most important thing is the mold used to make the pipe.

One is the core iron rod of the coiled tube, and its hardness must be strong enough.

The second is to drill the gun chamber, that set of four-edged drill bits, the material is soft and absolutely not, and there will be no edges after a few drills.

Therefore, the hardness must meet the standard of high-carbon steel, just to get this, Tie Pingliang had to rely on his rich experience to do it for nearly two months.

Don't look at this kind of mold, if you make it in the future, it's like playing, and you can buy it for a little money.

But in this era, they all have to rely on the experience of craftsmen, repeatedly forged over and over again, and quenched to create.

Don't look at him Li Zixiao is a person who has traveled through time, with a lot of rich knowledge in later generations, but knowledge is knowledge, and actual operation is one thing.

If he was asked to build such a mold, Li Zixiao would only be able to talk on paper, and if he really let him build this thing himself, he would never be able to make it in his life.

Who let them not even be hungry for the simplest machine in their hands at this time, so they were in a hurry, but this meal still had to be eaten one bite at a time, and Li Zixiao was not in a hurry.

However, at this time, the situation in Huaxia is still 108,000 miles away from Li Zixiao's big industrial dream, and he still has a long way to go in the future.

After Li Zixiao gave Sun Tong the order to build a dam and build a waterwheel, he originally planned to stay in Baihuzhai for two more days to see Tie Pingliang and them build a new type of bird gun.

However, at this time, Wei Hong, who stayed in the White Snake Village, sent someone to send him an important piece of news, so that he had to return to the White Snake Village in advance.

Because, the person sent back by Wu Laiyun has returned, and the imperial court has replied to the question of Zhao'an. (To be continued.) )