Daming Military Empire

Chapter 31 Lathe
Sun Chengzong's display of power was really extraordinary, and the officials of the Donglin Party immediately silenced their voices collectively, and they didn't even dare to write the impeachment memorial.Even if Qian Qianyi had all kinds of calculations, he could only hold back his flag and wait for the next opportunity. If he still dared to persuade these people to make trouble, he would be the one who was unlucky.

As soon as the officials withdrew, the work of the various ministries immediately returned to normal. Lai Daozong from the Ministry of Accounting immediately began to allocate silver, Bi Maokang from the Ministry of Industry immediately began to organize manpower to build military factories, and Xu Guangqi from the Ministry of Rites also remembered that he was still an emperor. Into the palace.

The construction of the military factory has finally started. According to the original plan, a small blast furnace will be built first, and a few furnaces of high-quality low-carbon steel will be smelted first.Whether it is a gun barrel, a drill, or a knife, steel is needed, and nothing can be made without steel, so a small blast furnace must be built.

Small blast furnaces don't take much time, and they don't need many people. The main personnel are still used to build factories.In the plan, the machining workshop was built first, because now except for the drilling machine that has been 'developed', other beds are still in Zhu Cijiong's mind, without even a model.Therefore, the machining workshop must be built as soon as possible, and other machine tools must be developed with all efforts.Otherwise, when the military factory is built, there will be only one drilling machine, and there will be no flintlock guns at all.

This development is actually Zhu Cijiong teaching the blueprints of machine tools in his mind to Xu Guangqi and others in a guided way. Zhu Cijiong first taught lathes.This lathe has a nickname called "Industrial Mother Machine". Why is it called so?Because this lathe actually has the functions of many machine tools. As long as there is one lathe, other machine tools can be made slowly, just like a mother giving birth to a child.Moreover, the higher the precision of the lathe, the higher the precision of the machine tool produced.

The lathe is actually not complicated, just swap the left and right sides of the drilling machine and it is almost the same.That is to say, the drilling machine turns the drill bit but the parts do not move, and the lathe turns the parts but the turning tool does not move.Of course, in order to keep the parts from rotating, there must be a cylindrical clamp to firmly clamp the parts.In addition, lathes are generally capable of automatic tool feed, which is not difficult, as long as a pinion driven by a piston is added to the rack.

Zhu Cijiong sorted out his thoughts, tried to find out the common ground between lathe and drilling machine, and then began to teach his cronies.

Sure enough, Xu Guangqi and the others understood it as soon as they heard it. There is a ready-made drilling machine there, so who can't change the left and right sides, and then add two parts!

The machining workshop cannot be built in a day or two. In order to save time, Zhu Cijiong decided to make a model of the lathe in the side hall of the Qianqing Palace, and try turning some wood first to see if there is anything that needs improvement. place.After the lathe is finalized, the parts will be processed directly in other workshops of the Ministry of Industry, so that once the machining workshop is completed, the official lathe can be assembled immediately.With the lathe, other machine tools can be made very quickly.

Xu Guangqi and the others thought of a faster way. Anyway, they are already familiar with the drilling machine, so it doesn’t matter whether there is a model or not. They can simply modify the drilling machine model, so that only the jig and pinion can be processed.

Zhu Cijiong naturally had no objection, as long as they could understand these machine tools thoroughly, as for how to do it, he would not interfere too much, he wished that these people would use their brains more.

The lathe model was ready soon. Xu Guangqi and the others were all stunned when they saw the magical automatic tool feed. In the era of pure manual processing, this semi-automatic machine simply subverted their cognition. It turns out that processing things can be played like this!People don't need to move at all, just clamp the parts to adjust the position, and then press the switch, the machine tool will automatically start processing!

Although it is the first time to make a lathe, there is already a drilling machine model in front of it, and most of the parts used are the parts of the original drilling machine, so the processing effect of the machine tool model is very good. I don't know how many times smoother than manual processing.

This is a great improvement. The inner wall is smooth, and the sealing performance is enhanced. Once the sealing is strengthened, the force of the piston will be greater, the movement will be more stable, and the precision of the machine tool will also increase accordingly.In addition, the outer wall has also been turned around, so the entire cylinder looks like a regular product, unlike the hand-processed one. The rough appearance does not look like a high-tech product.

After seeing the magic of the lathe, Xu Guangqi and others became more enthusiastic. Without Zhu Cijiong's urging, they all focused on the new lathe. After understanding the principle, they began to improve continuously. The lathe was basically finalized in less than two months. .When the machining workshop is completed, all the parts of the lathe and drilling machine have been processed.

After the first lathe and the first drilling machine were assembled and debugged, Xu Guangqi and the others got carried away with excitement, and even invited Zhu Cijiong to the military factory to press the start button for the first official production of the machine tool!
If it is in modern times, it is normal for a head of state to go out. In ancient times, it was different. When the emperor went out of the palace, there were tens of thousands of guards. The other eunuchs, maids, and accompanying officials did not know how many.

Although it is troublesome, Zhu Cijiong still wants to go out of the palace to have a look. He has been in the Ming Dynasty for so long, and he doesn't even know what the common people outside look like. How can he govern the country well in the future.

He originally thought that Sun Chengzong and Xin Wang Zhu Youjian would object, and even if they didn't object, they would dissuade them. He didn't expect that when he mentioned the idea of ​​leaving the palace, the two of them had no intention of objecting at all.Sun Chengzong continued to review the memorial, but Zhu Youjian replied, but not to dissuade him, but to ask him to notify Luo Yangxing to arrange guards along the way.

It’s no wonder that the two of them didn’t respond. The emperors of the Ming Dynasty loved to go out of the palace. It was hereditary. It’s good for him to go to the capital. Many emperors liked to go to the Mongolian grasslands. Two can't come back!

Since no one objected, Zhu Cijiong naturally agreed to go.

On the second day, just after the morning court, Zhu Cijiong hurriedly changed into a light dragon robe, and couldn't wait to pull Qin Mingyue and set off.Although he didn't ask any officials to accompany him, the scene was still extremely horrifying:

The entire team might not be two or three miles away. In the front were the five thousand Jinyiwei clearing the way, behind the five thousand Shenji Battalion, and in the middle were rows of court ladies and eunuchs.From West Chang'an Avenue to Wang Gongchang, there were lined up guards in brocade clothes. It could be said that the banners were like clouds, covering the sky and the sun.

Zhu Cijiong sat on the dragon chariot carried by 32 eunuchs in the middle of the team, with a huge canopy on top of his head, and behind him stood Qin Mingyue and Cao Huachun, two masters. On the left and right of the dragon chariot were Xin Wang Zhu Youjian, Taifu Sun Chengzong, and Zhongzhen Hou Qin Liangyu , Commander of Jin Yiwei sent Luo Yangxing to accompany him on horseback. With that posture, there was no need to post a notice. Everyone in the capital knew that the emperor was on a tour.

This is a terrible situation, the whole capital is in a state of chaos, everyone is rushing desperately to the street full of Jinyiwei, if they can see the emperor's dragon face, they will have bragging rights in this life.

Zhu Cijiong looked at the common people kneeling on the ground on both sides of the road, and felt so proud. Only now did he truly appreciate the dignity of the ancient emperors.These are all his people. As the saying goes, if you don’t see it, you won’t know it. When you see it, you will be shocked. Even if there are densely packed people kneeling on both sides of the road, there are at most a hundred thousand people. This scene is already extremely spectacular.The entire Ming Dynasty has a population of nearly [-] million, [-] million people!He is the co-lord of these [-] million people!
The emperor of the Ming Dynasty was relatively close to the people, and there was no such smelly rule in the Qing Dynasty that civilians could only lie down in front of the emperor and not offend Longyan.So the civilians on both sides of the road knelt there straight, stretched their necks and looked up at their emperor, as if they were still admiring something.

Zhu Cijiong really wanted to hear their praises, but the first section was West Chang'an Avenue, which was a bit wide, and the people didn't dare to make loud noises, so he couldn't hear what they were praising.

After walking through West Chang'an Avenue, the road began to narrow. Zhu Cijiong finally heard the people's praise for him, basically the same sentence: "Wow, the emperor is so cute!"

It turns out that these common people 'praise' is this!Zhu Cijiong's face was covered with black lines, but Qin Mingyue behind him couldn't help covering her mouth and laughing coquettishly.

Uh, well, a six-year-old little Zhengtai wearing a dragon robe sitting solemnly on a dragon chariot is indeed quite cute!

(End of this chapter)