Iron Dynasty

The explosion of Bowen College was just a false alarm, which made Xiao Ming relieved.

However, the experiment of smokeless gunpowder still allowed him to see the enthusiasm of the students. For more than three years, Qingzhou's science and technology have not completely surpassed the West, but with the efforts of these students, he believes that there will be trains and electricity. , there will also be internal combustion engines, and it will not take long for the Great Yu Kingdom to once again become a world forest in science and technology, and become a holy place for all countries to come to the dynasty.

Knowing the situation, Xiao Ming explained Lu Tong's establishment of the chemical industry, and then took advantage of today's free time to inspect various workshops in Qingzhou.

With the establishment of the steam engine workshop, steam engines began to be used in more and more machines. During the attack on Wei Di, steam engines were used for drilling machines, steam engines for boring machines, and steam engines for milling machines and grinders.

Now not only the production speed of gun barrels is increasing day by day, but also the production speed of spare parts for flintlock guns is greatly accelerated, because the craftsmen do not need to use traditional manual grinding methods, but directly use mechanical grinding.

In addition to the speeding up of the military industry under the impetus of steam engines, the textile industry in charge of Fei Yue is also booming, and the output and quality of cloth have been greatly improved.

However, this is only part of the role of the steam engine. Lin Wentao is leading the students of the institute to prepare to use the steam engine in the chemical and metallurgical industries.

After all, a steam engine can perform linear motion, and can also be converted into circular motion through the crankshaft and flywheel. It can be said that the steam engine of this era is a real universal machine. Even many modern industries are still using steam engines. Now his only regret is that At present, only steam engines can be transported in a small area such as Qingzhou. As for other states and counties, they are now rarely affected by steam engines.

However, the beginning of everything is difficult, and the meal must be eaten one bite at a time.

When he arrived at the workshop area, Xiao Ming first went to the steel workshop. Now Lin Wentao has installed two steam engines here. When he arrived, the steam engine was driving the bellows to continuously blow air into the converter.

Below the converter is the burning coal. There are craftsmen who supervise the molten steel on the observation platform above the converter. Once the molten steel is refined, the craftsmen below will pull the converter to tilt the converter.

At this time, the molten steel in the converter will flow out along the tapping port, and flow down from the groove on the other side into various molds for shaping.

In addition to the use of steam power in the bellows, today's iron and steel workshops also have their own forging hammers, but they are different from hydraulic forging hammers, which use steam-powered stable forging hammers.

Some large steel structures are gradually formed under the beating of this hammer.

Very satisfied with the reform of the steel workshop, Xiao Ming went to the paper workshop again. This industry has been hand-made since Xiao Ming established, so the output of the paper workshop has not been high.

Now the steam engine is the most important pulping stage in the papermaking process, which makes the output of the papermaking pulp rise suddenly. Now the craftsmen only need to focus on the later work of surfing the Internet and pressing. As a result, most of the craftsmen are freed to invest in the later work. work, the amount of paper production is also overturned.

After leaving the paper mill, Xiao Ming went to the white sugar workshop again. Just like the pulping stage of papermaking materials, the sugar cane chewing work in the white sugar workshop is also handed over to the steam engine.

When combining the steam engine with other machines, Xiao Ming naturally did not forget to hand over the structure of these simple machines to Lin Wentao. These crushers were produced by Lin Wentao and others instructing the craftsmen in the steel workshop.

After all, the structure of the crusher is very simple, but it is a large cylinder with a fan blade turbine-like structure in it.

Knowing the current pilot experiments of the steam engine, Xiao Ming finally went to Lin Wentao's steam engine workshop. In order to facilitate the acquisition of raw materials, the steam engine workshop was located inside the workshop area, only one kilometer away from the steel workshop.

When he arrived at the workshop, Lin Wentao was talking to the students in the workshop's research room.

His Royal Highness. Seeing Xiao Ming's arrival, Lin Wentao saluted, and the students in the laboratory looked excited.

Nodding his head, Xiao Ming looked at the picture on the blackboard in the research room and said, Are you studying the conveyor belt of the coal mine?

Yes, Your Highness, steam engines need a lot of coal, but there are not many coal mines in Qingzhou, and most of them are deep mines. If you use steam engines to pump water and transfer coal, the output of the mining area will increase a lot, and once the coal mines can be used, other mines It can also be used, so that the metallurgical industry in Qingzhou can develop. Lin Wentao said: His Royal Highness once said that what Qingzhou lacks now is raw materials, and the lower official thought about getting the machinery needed for the mine first.

Hearing this, Xiao Ming smiled gratified. In the past three or four years, these students have made great progress day by day. After all, he worked hard every day to write technical books and it was not in vain.

You really want what this king thinks, but what this king wants to tell you this time is to directly separate the machinery from the steam engine, and let some students of the research institute be responsible for the research of machinery in various industries? Xiao Ming said. .

In modern mechanics, it is an independent discipline. What the steam engine provides is only the power, and the machinery is the purpose of the power used. Now, with the steam engine, Xiao Ming can teach the mechanical knowledge in the technology library to Lin Wentao and others.

Lin Wentao thought for a while, the main work of the research institute has really shifted from steam engines to machinery, he said to Xiao Ming: Your Highness, this is also possible, now some machines are made from scratch, we need to specialize some people to take charge. .

Xiao Ming smiled. Bowen College's books are only part of it. It can be said that it is only simple junior high school knowledge plus some high school knowledge, while mechanics is a serious university major.

And in order to prevent technology leaks, he has always picked out important technologies from books and collected them into books for individual laboratories and research institutes to study.

So he said: It's a waste of time to start from scratch. This king will give you a mechanical book. You only need to compare the books to manufacture the machines of various industries in the book.

Lin Wentao was a little shocked. As he learned more about scientific knowledge, the more he discovered that any subject in Bai Bowen College required a lot of energy to achieve success, while Xiao Ming understated everything, as if he had mastered all knowledge. Very sophisticated.

Thinking of this, he admired Xiao Ming more and more. This kind of admiration is not the admiration of a commoner for the monarch, but the admiration for the profound person.

After settling on the matter of machinery manufacturing, Xiao Ming chatted with the students of the research institute for a while, and then he went to the Qingzhou camp. He had prepared food and firearms, and the rest was the army.