Prosperous Tang Blood Blade

Chapter 816
Chapter [-] The Industrial Sprout of the Tang Dynasty in the Western Regions

Although Chen Ying made sufficient preparations, he modified all the four-wheeled carriages and sleds that accompanied him, covered the walls with cowhide, and burned a stove inside. Although the cold wind was howling outside, the carriage was still as warm as spring.

However, the bumps along the way cannot be alleviated much.Even with spring steel as the shock absorber, the shock absorber effect of this sled is not even as good as the pickup trucks of later generations.

Although Li Xiuning is pregnant, she is in good spirits.Regardless of the cold wind, she opened the car window from time to time, looking at the world of ice and snow outside.Just after entering the territory of Huyang County, Li Xiuning found a very large building complex in the distance, and there was thick smoke billowing in it. She was surprised: "Chen Lang, do you think there is water in front?"

When Chen Ying heard this, he was also taken aback.

The weather is dry in winter, which is easy to cause fires, especially in this season. Once a fire breaks out, let alone being burned or burned to death, even if people escape, it may not last long in the cold and freezing weather.

Chen Ying hurriedly opened the car window and looked at the thick smoke in the distance.However, Chen Ying was no longer familiar with that thick as a bucket, like a roaring black dragon, soaring up to [-] miles.This chimney is unique to the smelting plants of later generations.

Chen Ying explained with a smile: "The front is not water, it should be a big workshop, why do you want to go and have a look!"

At this moment, Zhou Qing, the commander of the guards, came to report: "The Chief Protector, the magistrate of Huyang County and the county magistrate led the officials of Huyang County to welcome the Chief Protector!"

Chen Ying leaned out and looked at dozens of people standing in the snow not far away, shivering with cold.Chen Ying frowned, he didn't like this kind of so-called welcome, so he waved his hands and said, "Let Zhao Boying dismiss everyone, let him come here by himself!"

Li Xiuning pointed to the factory building in the distance and said, "Chen Lang, let's go over there and have a look!"

Chen Ying nodded and said: "Okay, let the magistrate of Huyang County take us there!"

Hearing that Chen Ying was going to visit the workshop in Huyang County, Zhao Boying hurriedly whispered in front of his son, telling him to ride a horse and go to the workshop to prepare.

Zhao Boying boarded Chen Ying's carriage.Chen Ying asked: "What workshop is in front?"

"Reporting to the Governor, it is a farm tool production workshop!" Zhao Boying said proudly: "This workshop has six workshops, which produce hoes, curved plows, columbine carts, sickles, and keel waterwheels (starting from the Han Dynasty. An irrigation tool invented by the Chinese government), Kongming cart (a means of transportation invented during the Three Kingdoms period)!"

Chen Ying nodded and said, "Take us to have a look!"

When he came to this huge workshop in Huyang County, although Chen Ying was well-informed, he never thought that Zhao Boying would actually create such a workshop.

In the huge workshop, the adjusted molten alloy steel slowly flows into the grinding tools one by one along the chute.The grinding tool filled with molten alloy steel was pulled by several oxen and moved slowly along the track. Skilled craftsmen, wearing thick cotton gloves and holding huge steel pliers, picked up an orange-red walk to a giant punching machine, put the coulter in the fixture, and as the fixture is fixed, the craftsman steps on the pedal, and the giant punching machine is held by the stretching die driven by the cattle. It fell hard with a powerful impact, and with a bang, the flat coulter was pressed into an arc-shaped cone.

Zhao Boying explained to Chen Ying: "Although the quyuan plow made by the governor is easy to use, it is too complicated to make and it is not easy to make. It takes about three days for a skilled craftsman to make a coulter. Now this mechanism is used. , half a stick of incense can create a side..."

Of course, this processing method is still quite primitive, the machines are also backward, and the production capacity is not high. With so many machines, it can only process more than 1000 workpieces in a day, but in this era, such efficiency is already very scary.Chen Ying pointed at the animal-powered punching machine curiously and said, "Where did you get this thing?"

Zhao Boying smiled awkwardly: "Do you still remember the last time I took copper to Shule? When I sent the copper to Shule's coin bureau for handover, one of my nephews, Zhao Zimao, had no intention of watching it. When it comes to casting money..."

Chen Ying clicked his tongue secretly, this Zhao Zimao is really a talent.The hydraulic stamping machine and the animal-powered stamping machine are two completely different concepts. This is like seeing a gun and developing the artillery by the way.

What Chen Ying didn't know was that Zhao Boying had given Chen Ying too many surprises.

Then, Chen Ying followed Zhao Boying into another huge factory building, which produced keel waterwheels.The keel waterwheel originated in the Eastern Han Dynasty and was improved by Ma Jun, an inventor during the Three Kingdoms period.Since then, it has been playing a huge role in agriculture.

However, because the keel waterwheel is made of wood, its rotation efficiency and wear resistance are much worse.At this time, the keel waterwheel built in this workshop seems to be like the motorcycle chains of later generations, but it is larger and all of them are similar castings. After assembly, they form the so-called keel. The keel waterwheel at this time, because There is too much steel and fewer trees in the Western Regions, and Chen Ying strictly forbids the people to publish trees, so they adopted keel waterwheels made of steel.

The manufacture of this steel keel waterwheel actually created the concept of chains in later generations, which surprised Chen Ying very much.What surprised Chen Ying the most was the operation of producing seamless steel pipes, which is also the method of pouring. These craftsmen actually dug a deep well more than three feet deep underground for the abrasive tools of steel pipes. The molten steel is poured directly into the mold.Due to the dry climate in the Western Regions, there is no so-called bubble problem.

These poured seamless steel pipes were taken in front of a boring tool, and as the horses galloped hard, they made harsh noises and sparks flew everywhere... The steel pipes are made of low-carbon steel, so they are easier to cut, but Despite being mild steel, it is much cheaper than bronze.

Finally, after Zhao Boying's explanation, Chen Ying realized that these seamless steel pipes were actually used to make water pipes. Water resources in the Western Regions were scarce, and there was no bamboo to use here, but steel resources were relatively abundant, so people began to use steel pipes to make water pipes. Acts as a conduit for water.

A piece of seamless steel is three feet and six feet, and the lathe cutter starts to cut the outer screw hole on the steel pipe.Then cut out the inner screw on the bushing...

Chen Ying looked at Zhao Boying and said, "How did you come up with this kind of thing?"

In fact, this was definitely beyond Chen Ying's surprise.Whether it is a stamping machine or a machine tool, it is very primitive and inefficient, but it is undeniable that this has opened the industrial germination of the Tang Dynasty.

Zhao Boying smiled bitterly and said: "It's not because of the lack of people. Huyang County has a lot of land and few people, so it can't be planted at all. My little old man... Seeing that all the good land is deserted, I feel anxious. It used to be that one plow knife was used for three days, but it was only a few plows throughout the year. I heard that the mechanism can save labor, so the subordinate officials led people to build these mechanisms. Now this Qujiang plow can produce 30 sets a year, which is more than enough to supply the entire Western Region. , and keel waterwheels, a set of three days, all the fields in Huyang County can be used for water bone dragon carts in a year at most, and there is no need to look at God anymore!"

Chen Ying sighed very much, the people of Huaxia are hardworking and intelligent, and Chen Ying just opened up a new way of thinking for them, so they ran farther and faster on the new road.

Now there are only six small-scale workshops in one county of Populus euphratica, which can only be regarded as family workshops in later generations, but in this era, it is already very scary.

The annual output is 30 sets of curved shaft plows, 20 sets of columbine carts, and millions of sickles. You must know that sickles can not only harvest crops, but also cut grass.

At this moment, only a crisp sound of "clang" was heard, and the lathe stopped abruptly.

The craftsman in charge, Zhao Zimao, patted his thigh and sighed, "Hey...it broke again!"

Chen Ying stepped forward to take a look. Because the lathe was still rough and the quality of the high manganese steel alloy knife was high, the knife finally broke.

Chen Ying looked at the dropped knife and said: "It seems that the Gaomeng steel knife is still not good enough, unless you can make tungsten steel, it's useless."

Zhao Zimao became interested, looked at Chen Ying and asked, "Tungsten steel? What is tungsten steel?"

"Tungsten is a metal with extremely high hardness. The knives made of alloy steel made from it are extremely sharp, and are resistant to high temperature and wear. They are one of the most ideal knives." Chen Ying smiled wryly: "Don't look at me, I But I don’t have the ability to get it out!”

Not to mention, as soon as he mentioned tungsten steel, Zhao Zimao stared at him blankly, looking like he was going to eat people, which made Chen Ying's scalp go numb... There is no electricity these days, so where can he get tungsten steel? go?Even if you get tungsten, you can't process it.

There is no way, let's see the future, sooner or later, it will be made out.

Chen Ying is holding a seamless steel pipe. Although this kind of steel pipe is made of low-carbon steel, the thickness of the pipe wall is also different. If the diameter of this seamless steel pipe is reduced and rifling is carved inside, can it be made? muskets?

Thinking of this, Chen Ying still shook his head.

Firearms are the devil in Pandora's Box. Chen Ying didn't think about whether to release this devil or not.

Chen Ying didn't make up his mind until he left Huyang County.

However, Huyang County opened Chen Ying's horizons, and then Chen Ying asked Guo Luo to investigate the industrial development of the prefecture and county. These data are actually in the hands of Tiger Yicong. After receiving Guo Luo's intelligence summary, Chen Ying was dumbfounded again.

Today's Western Regions has more than 400 steel workshops, large and small. However, except for the Huaergou Steel Workshop under Chen Yingzhi and a few large steel factories that are used to manufacture armor and running tracks, other private steel workshops are all Cannot craft weapons.However, there are more than 400 steel workshops, which still surprised Chen Ying.

Except for iron and steel, there are five or six hundred coal mines, but most of them are small coal mines with an annual output of less than [-] shi, which are used to supply the daily life of the surrounding people.

Steel and coal have laid the foundation for Datang's industrial germination in the Western Regions.

(End of this chapter)