my magic industry

Chapter 80 Formulation and Ball Mills
Because the alliance countermeasure proposal was proposed, the focus of discussion at the final alliance meeting was not at all on whether to provide steel assistance to the Xinglan Industrial Park, or the equity distribution of the six new factories in the industrial park.

After the meeting ended, Ellen Gregg and a group of nobles familiar to Xia Lin came over to greet Xia Lin one by one, and chatted briefly. Xia Lin felt that because of this proposal, his position in the alliance The status seems to have risen a lot.

"Is this probably Xia Lin's route?"

Walking out of the Vinia Opera House, Xia Lin looked at the bustling scene of thousands of sails passing by on the Seine River, and shook his head self-deprecatingly, preparing to formulate a detailed countermeasure proposal. The Chamber of Commerce is in touch with the matter of steel products.

In Xia Lin's plan, the agricultural cooperative has four steps to follow.

The first step is to be responsible for selling cheap iron and steel farm tools to farmers and manor owners, establishing a presence in the countryside.

The level of smelting in the Sassen Empire was not well developed, and the price of pig iron used for farm tools cost 3.2 silver per pound. Except for some old free peasants with good backgrounds, most farmers used wooden farm tools.

If some iron and steel farm tools can be bought cheaply, I believe farmers and manor owners will welcome the existence of rural cooperatives very much.

The second step is to contact farmers, manor owners and the animal husbandry industry, and provide farmers with cattle and horses through farmers' application for lease and feeding, so as to further deepen the relationship between agricultural cooperatives, farmers and manor owners.

Most of Helgana's surroundings are plains. This kind of large plain needs animal power to help farming, but the price of cattle for plowing is high, and usually only manor owners who have run animal husbandry can provide them, and the rental price is high.

In this way, the alliance can destroy the influence of manor owners on grassroots farmers and some traditional agricultural manor owners, and at the same time enhance their sense of presence in the countryside.

The third step is to be responsible for selling cheap goods from the commercial alliance, bankrupt the small peasant economy and handicraft workshops around the imperial capital through cost advantages, and bring farmers and manor owners into the commercial alliance system.

The biggest problem at this point is transportation. If you want to radiate the goods produced by the alliance to the periphery of the imperial capital, you must reduce transportation costs. Xia Lin's idea is to build concrete roads with the power of the empire.

After the development of steel machine tools, the ball mill used to grind cement clinker will not be a problem. At that time, the cement plant can continue to build cement shaft kilns, and the output of cement will increase several times or even ten times. Provide prerequisites.

The rest must rely on the power of the Minister of Finance, Earl Stewart, and the Minister of Commerce, Earl Karen. They need to pass the policy of building roads at the court meeting, and let the Imperial City Hall and the Imperial Treasury allocate funds, so that the business alliance can carry out this project in name and funds. plan.

The fourth step is to be responsible for signing agreements with farmers and manor owners on off-take sales of agricultural products and guiding planting, and to establish agricultural research institutes to ensure agricultural production.

In the future, through mechanization, industrialization, and large-scale planting, the productivity of the countryside will be liberated, and farmers will flow into the cities to become workers. They can also earn more wages on the basis of land.

At this point, it means that the cornerstone of the conservatives has been completely hollowed out by the liberals. The farmers and manor owners they rely on have been transformed into half-workers and half-agricultural agricultural workers and industrialized farmers. A member of the established industrialized system.

Going one step further, if Xia Lin climbed to the back of the technology tree and pointed out the ammonia plant, then the conservatives would never even think about turning over in their lives.

The existence of chemical fertilizers means that the enlightened faction has mastered the advanced productive forces, and they can completely use this productivity gap to form a dimensionality reduction blow. Even if the conservative faction cuts off the flesh and blood of other classes to feed farmers and manor owners, it is not necessarily enlightened. Pie provides a large amount of fertilizer to increase the attractiveness of production.

And Xia Lin thinks that it is quite simple to start an ammonia factory in this world, because the high-temperature and high-pressure containers required for the synthesis of ammonia can be made of pure gold, the metal of God in various senses.

It's just that with the price and output of fine gold... I'm afraid that even with the full strength of the alliance, Xia Lin will have to save up for two years before he can be sure to light up this technology.

In addition to rural cooperatives, the business alliance can also establish agricultural banks in small towns around the imperial capital to provide low-interest loans to farmers and manor owners. Through this economic means, these groups can also be further tied to the alliance's carriage.

As for the new army...Xia Lin is naturally going to light up guns and artillery technology. Although this is not in line with the interests of the mage class he belongs to, because low-level mages may not be as effective as muskets in dealing with miscellaneous soldiers, but this Technology can greatly enhance the power of Xia Lin's own forces.

In the long time to come, it is conceivable that Xia Lin will have a very high influence on this new army.

Because muskets and cannons are two new weapons, no one except Xia Lin knows how to use them, and how should these soldiers who use new weapons be trained to exert their maximum combat effectiveness.

However, if you want to light up this technology, you have to wait for the electric arc furnace to tap steel, and at the same time, the pipe rolling machine can be successfully developed and operated successfully. In addition, a gunpowder factory must be established to be responsible for the production of gunpowder. Thinking of this, Xia Lin is on the plan again. Added a sentence:

"It is necessary to purchase minerals such as saltpeter ore, sulfur ore, and iron ore in advance as resource reserves."

The current development momentum of the industrial park is very good, and Xialin has to plan ahead and extend to the upstream and downstream of the industry in advance.

To prevent the important raw materials of the industrial park from being completely held in the hands of the alliance in the future, even if Xia Lin is strong enough, he can only use various compromises in exchange for these production raw materials.

After completing the plan, Xia Lin asked the printing room next to his office to print five copies, and asked Wyatt to send someone to the five speakers of the Business Alliance.

There is nothing else going on for the time being, Xia Lin is going to visit the machine tool factory, and ask Master Fine to make a ball mill, and rescue the workers who are suffering from cement dust in the cement factory and arrange them to the caustic soda factory that will be established soon. In a soap factory.

The principle of the ball mill is actually very simple, that is to use the rotation of the barrel of the ball mill to drive a large iron ball inside to continuously move inside, so as to use the gravity of the iron ball to crush the abrasive.

On both sides of the axis of the ball mill, there is a leather bellows and a material box respectively. By blowing air into the ball mill, the powder that meets the standard and is light enough will enter the material box along the sealed cast iron pipeline and deposit.

For a machine tool factory with six sets of turning, milling, planing, grinding, drilling and boring, this simple machine is not difficult to process, and pig iron is sufficient for the material.

Soon under the leadership of Master Fine, a group of dwarf masters processed all the parts. As for the internal iron balls, they were first cast and then finished.

However, the accuracy of these machine tools still seems to be a little problematic. The rollers of the ball mill make some strange metal friction sounds when they rotate. Although they can be used, they also expose some problems with these machine tools.

Xia Lin thought about it, and felt that improving the processing precision still had to be done step by step, and it was better to work hard at ordinary times, so he explained the principle of the spiral micrometer to Master Fine.

"Measuring through a series of fine threads? Sounds interesting, let's see if we can make it!"

Master Fine was very interested in the fine threads of the spiral micrometer, and immediately called a group of dwarves to try to develop it with a lathe.

Xia Lin asked a few workers to transport the newly-made ball mill to the cement factory. It is still the same here, and there will always be a thin layer of dust on various places, and it will always look dirty.

That's why Xia Lin stipulated in his production safety management regulations that employees in dusty factories such as brick factories, cement factories, and soda ash factories must wear gauze masks issued by the industrial park.

Hearing the news that Xia Lin had come to the cement factory, Adams hurried out:
"Good afternoon! Boss!"

"Well, long time no see, Adams, I brought you a good thing today!"

When Xia Lin saw Adams, he smiled and patted the carriage beside him. In the open compartment of the carriage, various parts of the ball mill were placed.

"Really? Boss, so what is the use of this machine?"

Adams looked at the weird big iron ball and asked in surprise.

"This is a ball mill. With the mill workers in this factory, it will be much easier. Let's go, let's go to the cement factory to assemble the machine first. There should be extra waterwheel power in the cement factory!"

Xia Lin explained the function of this machine. Seeing is believing. They came to the power shaft of the waterwheel. After installing the huge ball mill, they put a batch of newly produced cement clinker into the ball mill.

Then the gearbox was switched on, and the ball mill slowly turned under the amazed eyes of everyone. The big iron ball inside kept rising and falling with the rotation, making a dull sound.

Xia Lin asked a miller to sit and step on the leather bellows. After about ten minutes, after stopping the ball mill, he opened the material box, and everyone saw the fine cement powder.

"This is really a good thing!"

Seeing this result, Adams said with some excitement.

As the director of a cement factory, he has long been tired of the process of having three people grind cement clinker. This is not only a waste of manpower, but even if it is sealed well, there will always be dust coming out of the grinding device Come.

After the [-] sets of grinding devices in the cement plant started working at the same time, the floating dust on the ground of the cement plant never disappeared, making him have to wear a mask every day.

Compared with the crude grinding device, although this ball mill will also emit dust, the efficiency of one ball mill is comparable to the previous [-] sets of grinding devices, so the amount of dust in the cement plant is greatly reduced. This is good news for him.

"With this ball mill, the output of the cement plant should increase a lot, right?

Adams, can you estimate how much cement can be produced in a day?The roads of the industrial park will be prepared soon, and there are still many follow-up projects that also need cement. Our cement gap is still very large! "

"In the past, because the grinding was too slow, we always produced one furnace and waited for a while before starting work. I think that with the ball mill, the daily output should be increased to [-] pounds!"

Adams replied confidently.

"Six hundred pounds? That's not enough. Wait until you contact the First Construction Company and ask them to build a few more cement shaft kilns. I will also ask the machine tool factory to manufacture a few more ball mills, and strive to increase the daily output to 2000. heavy.

Do it well!Adams, I think you'll be able to afford your own boat before long, right? "

Xia Lin smiled at Adams. At the beginning, he gave these factory managers 2% of the shares, but the products of several factories were digested internally, so Xia Lin prepared them for them according to the output and the unit price of the products estimated by him. dividends.

After this period of time, Adams's dividends should have accumulated to almost 40 Jinlund, which is enough to buy a ship with a tonnage of about 500 tons.

(End of this chapter)