Tang Dynasty good brother-in-law

Chapter 725 Iron Bull and Iron Donkey

Li Dejian pointed to the first picture.

"This is the sketch of the machine's appearance. According to the regulations of Huayuan Guigonggu, the working principle of the machine, the internal structure, etc. are all top secrets, and they are not allowed to be disclosed outside the order."

"This machine has only one function, and that is to provide power. Huge power."

After Li Dejian explained, Yao Silian, Minister of the Ministry of Industry, asked: "How to explain the power once?"

The term power has long existed, but what Yao Silian wants to hear is whether the power provided by this machine is the same as the power he understands.

"The wind blows the sails, and the belt drives the boat is power. People pull carts, and what people bring to carts is also power. Horse-drawn carts, water drives waterwheels, all of this is power."

Yao Silian looked at the other important ministers, and after everyone nodded, Yao Silian said: "Please continue."

"The machine provides power, and everything that needs power can be used. For example, the yarn workshop used to use water wheels, and in winter, the small water yarn workshop will increase animal power to drive the turntable. Now this machine is divided into several different sizes. One type is equivalent to two. Ten horse strength, small size and light weight."

It seems that there are many different kinds of this thing, and all the courtiers are interested.

Li Dejian quickly drew an extremely weird picture.

"This is Liu Concubine's design. There are already finished products. There are many problems. There are hundreds of points that need to be improved. There are also hundreds of parts that need to be adjusted. This object is called Iron Bull, and Liu Concubine requires that it be completed within one year. It can be guaranteed to be used and mass production will be completed within two years."

"What's the use of iron bull?" Li Shimin was also aroused curiosity.

Li Dejian turned around and bowed slightly: "Sage, Concubine Liu has built a huge farm area of ​​thousands of hectares in the Huashan area. Two people and one cow can cultivate four acres of land every day. It is the limit. To borrow the words of Concubine Liu, If you cultivate five acres, you will die of exhaustion as well as the cattle."

Li Shimin and all the ministers laughed, the senior officials of the Tang Dynasty knew farming to some extent.

In fact, three acres a day is already a very high work efficiency.

"Iron oxen, it doesn't matter how much charcoal they eat every day. What's important is that a type [-] horsepower iron oxen can plow about [-] times as much land as two oxen a day. But it can't cultivate small plots of land. A large area of ​​fields in the connected plains is enough."

"Right now, Ghost Works Valley has mobilized two ghost workers, sixteen skilled craftsmen, six farmers, and four well-educated people. After checking many ancient books, we hope to manufacture a columbine cart that can be used with the iron ox within a year."

The columbine cart, this thing existed as early as the Eastern Han Dynasty.

Among them, six people, two cattle and six-legged columbine, reached the record of sowing 25 mu in one day.

The courtiers present, especially civil servants, who have never heard of this, can basically be dismissed from office.

So Li Dejian didn't explain the couch, but said: "According to Liu's concubine's design, an iron ox should be able to plow deep, fertilize the bottom at the same time, and sow seeds at one time. A type of iron ox can complete at least [-] acres of work every day." The amount of sixty-horsepower iron cattle of the second type should reach the amount of a thousand mu."

very powerful.

Even Li Shimin was moved.

Li Dejian continued: "Liu's son-in-law ordered that the first type of iron ox must be finalized within one year this year, and the formal production can begin. Tomorrow when the spring begins, four ready-made type I iron oxen will be prepared for spring plowing. Next year, we will Thirty iron oxen were made for the millions of acres of arable land in Luoyang."

Datang has not yet formally approved the Luoyang million-acre large granary plan.

The difference lies in the manpower.

There are too many people killed in the war in Luoyang, and it is a great plain area, with vast land and sparsely populated areas, and countless fields are barren right now.

"My minister, support the Luoyang Granary Project." The Ministry of Household Affairs and the Ministry of Industry also expressed their support.

If it is really possible to get one hundred acres a day, then those fertile fields in Luoyang that have been barren due to the lack of people can be used again.

Li Dejian also said: "Tie Niu Type I is also divided into three categories: Iron Niu Type A, Tieniu Type B, and Tieniu Type C. A is used for farming, B can be used for digging canals, and C is used for farming. Earthwork can be pushed.”

"We tried it in Huayuan. Although the iron cow broke down after only less than a mile of digging, the design direction is correct. You can dig half a foot each time, or manually shovel the soil, and you can also use the Iron Bull Type C Push the soil aside. Dig a canal one mile long, one foot wide, and four feet deep. It only takes ten days to dig. Then send people to repair the embankment.”

Powerful, so powerful.

Li Shimin only had one thing in mind, if his cousin had this machine, it is estimated that the project to be repaired would not be the Four Thousand Li Canal, but the Ten Thousand Li Canal.

But Li Dejian didn't mention the steam engine at all, only the machine.

Li Shimin understood that the steam engine would probably expose the core technology of the machine, so he was also thinking about what kind of name it would be better to have.

Li Dejian quickly wiped off the writing on the blackboard.

He is not going to talk about Iron Bull Type [-], Type [-], etc. It is something that cannot be done in a few years.

It is possible to make a real train only after reaching the Iron Bull III and being proficient.

Right now, there are trains, and the Tien Niu can pull them, but there is no point in pulling one or two carriages slowly.So Li Dejian will not mention the train.

Li Dejian drew another picture: "This one is more cumbersome, but it is easier to make than the Iron Bull. Because the Iron Bull has to consider the size, weight, and strength, it is very difficult. I don't care about this."

"This is a fifty-horsepower iron donkey placed on the ground."

Because most of the animal power in the workshop is donkeys, Li Dejian called this thing an iron donkey.

"A Type I iron donkey can drive more than one hundred sixteen-spindle yarn machines. The transmission part is being improved. It is estimated that by this time next year, two hundred yarn machines can work together."

"Okay, what an iron donkey." Yao Silian from the Ministry of Industry shouted.

You must know that Datang has reached a small bottleneck at the moment, that is, the amount of spinning cannot meet the weaving industry, and the demand for cloth is forty times that of the Seven Years of Wude.

This is not counting the fabrics that need to be sold in Wadao, Funan and other places.

When the steam engine was first invented in history, it was used in the textile industry.It is bulky and stupid, but its technical content is far lower than that of steam engines for trains.

Compared with the willow tracked light steam tractor, the technical content is many times lower.

Liumu's crawler steam tractor is the Iron Bull.At present, there is no one that can cultivate continuously for a day. Basically, there will be problems in most of the day. All kinds of small problems, Guigonggu is excited on the one hand, and worried on the other. Even young people like Li Dejian have such worries. Gray hair.

Li Dejian drew a third picture.

"This is firefish for ships, and it's also a stupid, ordinary product. The real refined high-quality firefish should be loaded on the boat, and it won't take up much space on the boat, and the operation is stable."

(End of this chapter)