Daming Military Empire

Chapter 41 Adding Machine Tools
The weather is getting colder, and there are still two months to go before the Chinese New Year. The New Year's Day is the most important festival in Chinese tradition. It is a day for family celebrations. It is reasonable to be happy and lively. , but Zhu Cijiong is not happy at all now.

The peasant uprising in Shaanxi is still going on. Yang He is still very responsible for the recruiting work. He has already recruited many rebels, but his recruiting speed cannot keep up with the speed of the increase of the rebels. Generally, once he recruits one, new ones will emerge. Come to two or three stocks, mainly because they have no money. When people are faced with such a simple multiple-choice question of either rebelling or starving to death, most people will choose to rebel.Therefore, the situation in Shaanxi has not improved, but is getting worse.

This trick doesn't work, so we have to prepare for the suppression. In order to save money, Zhu Cijiong chose to arm the army with flintlock guns, and then went to suppress the rebels.However, the production of this flintlock gun has encountered problems again. It cannot recruit people. It has built a large military factory that can accommodate at least tens of thousands of people, but in the end it only recruited about a thousand people, and all of them are white men. Starting from the basics, how will the output increase.

Speaking of this output, Zhu Cijiong has a way, because he was a process engineer in his previous life, and a reasonable process can increase the output.After much deliberation, Zhu Cijiong concluded that the only way to significantly increase production is to increase the types of machine tools.

There are still many machine tools in his mind, not because he is unwilling to make them, but because of the processing level at that time, it is too troublesome to make these machine tools.

For example, the structure of a milling machine is not complicated, as long as the drill is erected, and then the drill bit is replaced with a milling cutter, and then a platform for fixing parts is made.Everything else is not difficult to make, but this milling cutter is a big problem. With the processing level of the Ming Dynasty, it is not ordinary difficult to make a milling cutter.

The blank of the milling cutter is not very difficult to make. It can be turned out with a lathe before quenching. The key lies in the blade of the milling cutter. A circle of blades must be processed on a disc. The difficulty can be imagined.

Bi Maokang came up with a solution, that is grinding. There was no metal cutting equipment in the Ming Dynasty, but there were still many natural whetstones. Anyway, those stonemasons could not participate in military production. The blade is sharpened.

Zhu Cijiong gave him the blueprint of the milling cutter, and cold sweat immediately broke out on his forehead. With such a complicated blade, a stonemason might have to grind it for a month to make a milling cutter!

Of course, Zhu Cijiong would not ask people to grind them for a month. With the material of high-carbon steel, a milling cutter can last for a few days. If you have ten milling machines, you must arrange hundreds of people to grind the milling cutters. , the cost is too high.

The whetstone is more than that, the problem of milling cutter processing can be easily solved. A simple grinder can be made. The piston system is ready-made. The whetstone is processed into a disc shape, and then fixed on the rotating shaft.If a simple grinder is used for grinding, a skilled worker can grind several milling cutters a day, and the cost will not be so high.

Zhu Cijiong discovered that there are still many processing methods that he does not know, but Bi Maokang and the others are very clear about them.Without discussing this with them, the problem of the milling cutter will be solved, and the milling machine can do it with the milling cutter.Zhu Cijiong asked them to make ten sets in one breath. Basically, half of the various strange-shaped parts in the flintlock can be processed on the milling machine. With the milling machine, the output can be increased by at least [-]%.

There are also some strange-shaped parts that are flakes, which is not a problem at all in modern times. Buy a pile of thin steel plates and put them directly on the punching machine. One person can punch out thousands of them a day!But there was no standard thin steel plate in the Ming Dynasty, and punching machines also needed to be made on-site.

Let’s talk about the punching machine first. Even if it’s processing small parts, you have to lift up a gravity wheel weighing several hundred kilograms, and then punch it down with a snap, so that the thin steel plate on the mold can be punched into the desired shape.It’s okay to say this mold, it’s no problem to make a punching tens of thousands of parts, just let people grind them out slowly.The key is that this gravity wheel weighs several hundred kilograms and has to be turned into a wheel shape. A small lathe cannot withstand the tossing of such a big guy.

No way, Zhu Cijiong had to build a large lathe first, and the problem of the punching machine was basically solved.

With the large lathe, the problem of the thin steel plate is also solved. The steel plate is nothing more than rolled out by a rolling car, that is, the heated and softened steel block is rolled between two huge steel rollers, and the steel block becomes a steel plate. If you want to make it thinner, you can add a few more sets of steel rollers, and just roll it all the way.

With a large lathe, the steel rolls can naturally be processed, but the diameter cannot be made too large, and the blanks cannot be made if it is too large. Fortunately, the amount of thin steel plate is not large, and a few steel rolls with a width of half a meter will do. up.Just such a plate rolling machine can roll the steel plates produced in a day, and it can’t be used up in a month. This is a serious overcapacity.

Zhu Cijiong can’t control so much anymore. If there is no ready-made steel plate to buy, he can only process it himself. It’s okay to make more of this steel plate. It can be used in many places, but no one knows that there is such a good thing for sale. Everyone knows that there are high-quality steel plates for sale, and it is estimated that the supply will soon exceed the demand.

Once the punching machine and plate rolling machine are produced, the output of the flintlock gun will increase by [-]%. Of course, this is already the limit, and there is no need to make other machine tools. Some parts are too complicated, and I don’t know how long it will take to produce Making it, and making it doesn't help much in the production of flintlock guns, it's just a waste of time.

It took more than a month in this way, Zhu Cijiong and Bi Maokang discussed to complete the simple milling machine, grinder, plate rolling machine and punching machine, and more than 1000 novices can almost get started to operate it. The new year is coming soon arrive.Zhu Cijiong simply ordered everyone to take a good rest and start producing flintlock guns after the Chinese New Year.

In the blink of an eye, the first year of Chongzheng passed like this. After this year of ups and downs, Zhu Cijiong finally realized the hardships of being an emperor, and at the same time strengthened his determination to develop military industry.

The invasion of Hou Jin and the peasant uprising in the northwest made him understand a truth, that is: only with absolute force can he have an absolute right to speak. Why did Hou Jin ignore Daming's warning and attack Liaodong time and time again? Force is stronger than Daming.The reason why the peasants in the Northwest dared to put down their hoes to revolt was because the Ming Dynasty did not have any extra troops to suppress them.

If there are hundreds of thousands of quasi-modern troops equipped with new types of flintlock guns and sufficient artillery, even if you ask the peasants to rebel, they will not dare to rebel. In front of them, the peasants who put down their hoes are moving targets, and Hou Jin's cavalry is just a faster moving target.Asking them to fight with cold weapons and the Ming army equipped with advanced hot weapons is simply to let them seek death, who is so stupid!
Of course, these are just Zhu Cijiong's dreams now, and the road ahead is difficult, and he doesn't know when this dream will come true.

(End of this chapter)