Chongzhen Undergraduates

Even if the emperor hired craftsmen, it would take two or three years just to dry the wood.After waiting for two or three years, it will take more than a year to build, and that will be four or five years later.There is no rush!

"Hou Jin also has a navy, I'm afraid it needs to build a warship to deal with it." Zheng Chenggong asked Zhu Youjian tentatively.

"No, I'll let Aiqing deal with the navy in the north. What I want is a big ship that can transport troops." Zhu Youjian looked at Zheng Chenggong seriously and said.

In this way, Zheng Chenggong secretly breathed a sigh of relief, as long as it is not a battleship.In fact, at this time, the Zheng family, Zheng Zhilong, had already produced imitation Dutch plywood ships (Galen ship type).

As for the boatmen, the Zheng family actually had them, but it was impossible to hand them over to the imperial court. That was the capital of the Zheng family.

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The Institute of Science and Technology, that is where Zhu Youjian will definitely stay as long as he is in Nanjing.After another two months, good news came from the Polytechnic Institute.

"The problem of granulated gunpowder has been solved." Bi Xiangdong, who hadn't appeared for a long time, looked very haggard, but his spirit was still strong.

"How did you solve it?" Zhu Youjian was very curious. He didn't understand the specific processing methods.

"In the past, to make granular gunpowder, you first rub it with your hands and then roll it with a dustpan. It requires a lot of hands, and you can't make much in a day. This time I thought of a way, look at it, Your Majesty."

Bi Xiangdong pointed to a huge iron guy, and introduced excitedly: "First, mix the raw materials and dextrin in the big tank evenly, then put it in this entrance, use this machine to roll it into a pancake shape, and cut it into thin slices through here. The long strip..."

Zhu Youjian was delighted when he saw it. This is the kind of manual noodle pressing machine he saw in the countryside when he was a child.

Add gunpowder powder to the adhesive, then make thin noodles, spread them on a long board, and cut them out to the same length manually.

The technology is not difficult at all, but the difficulty is that the mechanical group has designed bearings, gears, and threaded cutting knives.This is the heart of this machine.

"How about the output?" Zhu Youjian touched this "noodle pressing" machine with a smile, a little fond of it, not because of how high-tech the machine is, but because starting from this machine shows that Ming Dynasty will enter a development era of machine manufacturing.

"Twenty people a day can equal the output of a hundred people in half a month." Bi Xiangdong raised his head proudly.

"Well, it's very good! However, it can be improved." Zhu Youjian smiled and pointed to the material opening and said, "From here, you can set up a constant-speed cutting device, so you don't need to spread it on the board and cut it manually."

Pretending to be thirteen is a necessary skill for a traveler. If Zhu Youjian doesn't guide him, it will appear that he is too incapable of pretending.

Bi Xiangdong blushed, and immediately withered.He is here to repay the credit.

"However, it is worthy of praise. These gears, bearings, bolts, threads, etc., you need to study more. Try to make them flatter, straighter, and rounder. They must also be mass-produced."

"The villain has written it down." Bi Xiangdong was very excited, he seemed to have realized the direction again.

"Don't be a villain anymore, I have already given you a title. Since the imperial court does not allow you to set up an official position for the Polytechnic Institute, the Ministry of Internal Affairs can give you a fourth-rank official title first. Take it first!"

"Thank you, Your Majesty!" The little craftsman became an official, and he was a fourth rank right away, Bi Xiangdong's eyes were red with excitement.

Machining is difficult, but there are only a few simple mechanical manufacturing principles. A traveler will naturally have seen countless machines in later generations.It's not a very advanced thing to guide some basic parts.

From screws and bolts to bearings and gears, it is just a matter of one point, and Daming is not without experience.What's lacking is just putting these things together.

"Has the furnace problem for steelmaking been solved?" Zhu You asked Fang Yizhi.

"According to the suggestion of the chemical industry group, Song Yingxing experimentally added some things to the refractory bricks, and now the molten iron can be produced normally."

"What about open hearth furnaces and converters?" Hot metal alone is not enough, what Zhu Youjian needs is steel for energy production.

"Not yet, I'm still figuring it out." Fang Yizhi sighed and said, "The output of a furnace has increased from a few hundred catties to tens of thousands of catties at once. They have tried their best, and now Song Yingxing is almost living and eating. In the steel training room."

"The iron materials currently needed by the Weapons Bureau should continue to be purchased from Guangdong. Song Yingxing will continue to increase investment and must protect the safety of the main skilled workers."

Without a lot of steel, everything is crap!

"Your Majesty, the cement in Taiping Mansion has been mass-produced, and the engineers have also learned how to build it. What should we do?"

For cement, Fang Yizhi saw the advantages, but he didn't see how useful it was.However, the emperor kept increasing production, which really made Fang Yizhi unpredictable.

"After all, Daming is still short of iron! If you have steel, you will know the great use of this thing."

Zhu Youjian shook his head. If there is no steel bar, cement is mostly used as an adhesive.With rebar, it can shape the whole world.

Chapter 192: The imperial driver personally conquered Li Zicheng

Li Chengdong has been exhausted for the past two months.

I originally thought that when I became a high-ranking official in Nanjing, my life must be very chic and comfortable, but who would have expected this situation.

Famous artists on the Qinhuai River, let alone meeting and chatting with him, didn't even answer his greetings.What is rare is the young master Pianpian who can write crooked poems.He, Li Chengdong, didn't even know the word "upside down the shoulder pole", how could he get into the eyes of the girls.

The current Li Chengdong is not as good as before. In Xuzhou before, if he robbed one or two women's girls, he still picked beautiful girls from rich families.Now he can only go to the lower-class brothels in Nanjing City to pick women.

In the past in the army, he was also a high-ranking official at any rate, that is to say, he was one-sided, and he had tens of thousands of people under him.Although the current Beijing camp is under his control, apart from a few veterans guarding the barracks, he can only manage a few hundred patrolmen guarding the city gates.

Li Chengdong and his two old friends often drink together and talk about their depression.

"I said, brother, don't cry. You are better off than us. If you go to that barracks, you will know that it is not a life for people."

"That's right, getting up before dawn in the morning, no matter whether you are an official or not, you have to run around the barracks. The most terrible thing is the evening study class. You said that we are all very old, and we still know What a word!"

The reorganization of the new Beijing battalion will be completed at the Jiangjunshan military camp. Unlike Li Chengdong, who is the capital commander, Wang Zhigang and Wu Zhaosheng are at a lower level, and they still have to receive training together.

Those so-called elite soldiers didn't suffer so much. After punishing several soldiers in a row, it turns out that Xuzhou's elite soldiers have calmed down.There are gossip rumors that those soldiers were sent to the mine, and it is said that they entered the dark and dark tunnel.

Nowadays, besides the capital crime of beheading, criminals in Ming Dynasty prefer to be punished by sending them to the mine.The birth of the blast furnace has already triggered the development of Taipingfu Iron Mine. In this era without explosives, a large-scale development of mines requires a lot of labor.

The coal from Huainan and the iron from Ma'anshan are the steel and iron bones that can support the development of Ming Dynasty.

"Okay, stop talking, if you continue talking, the three of us will have tears all over your face." Li Chengdong slipped away and drank a big glass.

It's not that he hasn't planned to change his position, but their foundation in Nanjing is shallow. After the emperor left them, he didn't care about it.

Now that the military power is gone, I can only envy my former colleagues who got promoted and made a fortune. I heard that many subordinates in Xuzhou in the past won a lot of rewards from the court after the battle of Fengyang, and all the credit was given in silver.

It's good that Li Chengdong didn't mention the Battle of Fengyang, but the three brothers felt even more aggrieved when they mentioned this. In terms of their ability to lead troops, they felt that they were the best among the former Xuzhou Army.

"The imperial decree has arrived! Li Benshen, the admiral of the Beijing camp, received the imperial decree." The three of them were drinking at Li Benshen's house, and in the midst of depression, a small yellow door came to the door holding the imperial decree.

The middle door was wide open, and Li Benshen's family hurriedly set up an incense table to receive the imperial edict. This was the first time he had officially received an imperial edict from the emperor. For ordinary people to reach this level, they have to work hard for a lifetime. This is the glory of being a high official.

"The above decree: Li Benshen, the admiral of the Beijing camp, will lead [-] troops from now on, and follow the emperor's personal conquest. Hereby!"

The imperial edicts of the emperor were not always carried on by the heavens, but were more often conveyed in the form of upper edicts or oral edicts, while upper edicts were written, and oral edicts were nothing more than a passing sentence.

Li Chengdong was stunned for a moment, what was he thinking, he was wondering if the emperor had forgotten him, and this mission came, and he still led [-] troops.

"Elder-in-law, a little meaning." Li Benshen stretched out his hand, and there was a plate of five and ten taels of silver.Such good news, of course, the cost is a bit more.

"My lord Li, I dare not take this. Now the palace is run by princes and princes. We dare not overstep." Xiao Huangmen kept refusal. .

Ever since he narrowly escaped death in the capital, Wang Chengen's whole person has changed. Not only did he not buy a house after he arrived in Nanjing, but even his extra monthly salary was all spent on official business. Long one together.