Iron Dynasty

After a spring rain, the weather is getting warmer.

The road in Qingzhou City has officially entered the construction stage. The cement workshops are busy producing cement day and night. At the same time, there are more cement pipeline workshops in the private sector.

These workshops buy cement from cement workshops and use moulds to mix sand and cement to produce cement pipes.

After the Qingzhou underground pipeline was excavated, the businessmen who contracted the Qingzhou pipeline construction would come to buy this kind of cement pipeline every day, but it made the shopkeeper of the cement workshop make a lot of money.

After accepting another fifty taels of silver, Dai Zixing couldn't keep his mouth shut. He was a local businessman in Qingzhou, and he was also the first batch of local businessmen in Qingzhou to join the Chamber of Commerce.

After the road construction was put on the agenda, King Qi handed over the production process of this cement pipe to the chamber of commerce. After learning the news, he went to the chamber of commerce and spent 1,000 taels of silver to win the process. At the same time, he also There are several other local merchants who have won this craft.

In the construction of Qingzhou Road, King Qi paid special attention to local businessmen, which made him Dai Zixing and many local businessmen really benefited.

Although there was a lot of investment in order to win this craft, the cost was quickly recovered after the workshop started, and it started to make a profit, which made him very confident in this cheap and practical product.

Zhu Wuliu, I will accept the money. Dai Zixing looked at Zhu Wuliu with a smile.

This young man from Zhujia Village has now become a celebrity in Qingzhou City. He borrowed 3,000 taels of silver from the government office with a land deed and contracted the construction of ten Minfang streets and underground pipelines. This courage is not something ordinary people have.

Storekeeper Dai, that's polite. I would also like to thank you for giving me credit for the pipeline some time ago, otherwise I really won't have enough money. Zhu Wuliu said with a smile.

Following Zhu Wuliu were people from Zhujia Village.

Since contracting the construction of roads in Qingzhou City, he immediately returned to the village to hire people.

Each person is thirty cents a day, and the young and old men in the village are scrambling to work with him. This leisure is also leisure. At thirty cents a day, this month is almost one or two silvers.

Where can such good things be found for the villagers?

What you said, your brother is a big hero in our film. Just relying on your brother's reputation, I can rest assured that I will owe you on credit. Dai Zixing smiled.

Zhu Wuliu recalled his brother's heroic and handsome appearance in dark green military uniform and felt proud in his heart. This time he was able to borrow 3,000 taels of silver, and King Qi also looked at Zhu Sansi with great grace.

With emotion in his heart, Zhu Wuliu glanced at the sunset that was about to set in the west, and said, All in all, thank you, I'll invite the shopkeeper Dai to the restaurant for tea another day.

Okay, okay. Dai Zixing said happily, It's not too early, you guys should transport these pipes to Qingzhou City.

Zhu Wuliu nodded, this time he rented ten carriages to transport the cement pipes, which also required money.

At first, he didn't understand anything. The three thousand taels of silver he borrowed were spent very quickly, and it was King Qi who gave him a call.

After that, he began to plan carefully, buying materials, renting a carriage, and carefully arranging the construction of strong men. Since then, he has slowly made money.

If the carriage can't enter the city tonight, it will have to be the next day, and then there will be an extra day's rent.

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In Qingzhou City.

Xiao Ming rode his horse towards the Equipment Division. When passing through every street in Qingzhou, he couldn't help but look twice.

Due to the construction of the whole city, the roads are now very messy, and the roads are full of accumulated dirt.

Businessmen from six states are busy with their people, and in some places the concrete roads have been paved.

In general, paving a concrete road is a relatively simple matter. Level the road, spread a layer of sand and gravel, stand on both sides with 20 cm high wooden boards, and pour the concrete on it to flatten it.

Although this project is relatively large, it is more expensive because of the large number of people. Now that there is no machinery, Xiao Ming can only use the crowd tactics.

Therefore, in the past month, Qingzhou roads have become one-fifth, and the east and west cities, which are key constructions, now not only have cement roads, but also have cement floors.

In order to clean the two markets, a garbage pool was also built beside the market, so that vendors could dump garbage into the garbage pool instead of littering.

While the road was under construction, the production of tools in the Equipment Division was not idle. Today, Song Changping brought news that he has made spring steel.

The other members of the team have already forged the parts of the bolt, but the main spring is missing. Now that the spring steel is successfully made, there is no problem with the bolt part.

When they arrived at the equipment department, Song Changping's team was gathering together, and Song Changping was talking with the movement in his hand.

At this time, other craftsmen reminded him that Xiao Ming was coming, and he turned around immediately.

Your Highness, look.

Song Changping handed over the movement of the flintlock gun to Xiao Ming.

The ready-made flintlock craftsmanship is handed over to these craftsmen, which means that these craftsmen have directly passed the research and development stage and entered the mature production stage.

So it is not a problem to forge the movement in one month.

The only problem was the spring steel on the movement, which was also solved by the iron-manganese alloy.

His Royal Highness, this iron-manganese alloy has been tested for more than a hundred times, and this is basically the weight ratio of iron and manganese. The craftsmen of other parts of the movement have already forged it.

Xiao Ming nodded with satisfaction. The refining of spring steel can be said to have broken through an important node in flintlock gun technology, and the rest is the barrel.

Although the current technology is backward and the alloys produced are more impurity, it is more than enough for flintlock guns, and he does not seek to make spring steel meet modern standards.

The movement is complete, now install the movement on the butt.

Your Highness, what kind of wood is suitable for this gun stock? Song Changping asked.

Peach wood and walnut wood can be used. The wood for the gun stock should be fine in texture and good in toughness. This kind of wood has a beautiful texture, good hand feel, is not easy to crack and deform, and is durable. Xiao Ming said, looking at the movement.

The craftsmen have already riveted the hammer, the gunpowder pool and the buckle reed to the main structure of the movement, using the traditional riveting process.

This method is very simple, which is to cut out small holes on the accessories and the main body respectively, then pass the nails, and flatten the two ends of the nails to deform, and attach them to the wall of the vessel, so that the spare parts can be combined together.

Song Changping nodded, His Royal Highness, now that the movement has been forged, whether to organize craftsmen to divide the production.

After working in the military workshop for a period of time, Song Changping naturally understands that the division of labor is highly efficient.

Just like artillery, Xiao Ming is also going to adopt the method of division of labor this time. In fact, in the era of flintlock guns, Europe also produced flintlock guns. Otherwise, millions of flintlock guns would not be born in this period.

He said: Just according to the way your teams are currently divided and cooperated, now go back to the military workshop, and each craftsman will convene several teams to be responsible for their own parts, gun stocks, and assembly.