Daming Crazy Emperor

Chapter 89 New Things

In fact, Wang Zheng was also a little puzzled. He was improving the machinery for producing muskets and cannons at Wang Gong Factory, and he was working hard on the improvement, but the emperor suddenly ordered him to come to the armor factory.

To be honest, a tech freak like him usually has a good temper. However, if someone is interrupting him while he is working on something, he will definitely get angry.

That's why the emperor sent someone to call him. If it was someone else, he would definitely say one word angrily: "Get lost!"

Of course he didn't dare to tell the person sent by the emperor to leave, he could only hold back his anger, and obediently followed Jin Yiwei to the armor factory.

As soon as he entered the study, he couldn't help but cupped his hands and asked, "Your Majesty, what's the matter with you summoning this humble minister?"

Are you talking nonsense? Why did I call you here?

Taichang pointed to the painted guillotine and said, "Have you seen this kind of thing?"

Wang Zheng took a closer look, nodded and said: "This seems to be the guillotine of the Western barbarians. I have seen pictures in the atlas of the strange weapons of the Western barbarians by chance, but I have never seen the real thing."

Oops, Wang Zheng was able to say the word guillotine!
This proves that he knows what this thing is for.

Very good!
I don't know how much time I have saved explaining this.

Taichang was a little excited and said: "Yes, this is drawn to imitate the guillotine, but it is not a guillotine in the middle, but a large square made of refined steel, and a piece of refined steel padded with ordinary iron blocks underneath." Steel, as for the two pillars, a guiding ridge has to be made in the middle to match the groove on the upper block, and you will see this again."

Then, he pointed to the picture drawn on the Zhajia piece and said: "This is the thing to be carved in the middle of the hundred-smelting steel block. The upper one is carved with a convex surface, and the lower one is carved with a concave surface. The two coincide, which happens to be A piece of armor is the same as that clay mold."

This principle is the same principle. The question is, why do you use Baisteel to carve?

For the clay model, you only need to press the nail plate on it, and then modify it a little bit. How hard it is for you to carve out this hundred-smelting steel model!

Wang Zheng was a little puzzled and said: "Your Majesty, what is this thing used for? It can't be used for casting, right?"

of course not!

Don't you understand?

Taichang pointed to the guillotine-like thing and said, "Think about it, as long as someone hangs up the smelting steel block above it, and then puts a small red-hot iron block in the groove below it, and then let this The [-]-smelting steel block on the top fell down with a whoosh, and smashed down hard, wouldn't a piece of armor be enough?"

A piece can also be processed like this!

When Wang Zheng heard this, his eyes almost popped out.

It's not that he has little knowledge, it's because there is no punching machine in this world!

Perhaps, there were similar things in the western barbarians, but Daming really doesn't have such things at the moment.

Creating something out of nothing and imagining it out of thin air is definitely not an ordinary difficulty.

It's like the fact that gravity has always existed. If Newton hadn't been hit on the head by a falling apple one day, who would have thought of gravity?

The principle of the punching machine is actually very simple, that is, to smash down a mold with a certain weight, and smash things into the shape carved in the mold.

Question, who would think of this for no reason.

You know, there are no particularly hard alloys these days. If you don't heat the iron red, and put a cold iron block directly into the mold, you can smash it down suddenly and the mold will be scrapped and the armor will not come out.

Moreover, you cannot die-cast slowly after the iron is hot, because the iron block will be cold when you press it, and people will not be able to press it. If there is no [-]-ton hydraulic press, it will definitely not be able to press to the bottom.

Therefore, at this moment, the only option is to burn the iron block red, and then smash it down suddenly, and it will be formed in an instant.

Wang Zheng understood this reason after thinking about it for a while, because some folk things are still related to this, such as the wooden mold for making moon cakes, press the dough in, and then gently knock it out, and a beautiful moon cake will come out .

He just didn't think about it, and pressed the red-hot iron fiercely.

This is a good thing. If it is made, it will not only be pressed armor pieces, but also pressed copper coins and so on.

After thinking about it, he couldn't help dancing excitedly: "My minister understands, Your Majesty, you just wait to see this, this, uh, by the way, Your Majesty, what is this called?"

Taichang said without hesitation: "This is called a punching machine. It is a new machine tool with a wide range of uses. How long will it take you to make it?"

This is not difficult, it just takes time.

Wang Zheng made a guess, then stretched out three fingers and said: "Three days, I will try to make it in three days."

Taichang nodded resolutely and said, "Okay, I'll come back in three days."

After speaking, he got up and walked back.

Is this punch hard to make?

To be honest, it's not difficult.

The most difficult point is to carve models on Baisteel. However, type printing has been popularized for a long time, and there are many old-fashioned ways to carve hard lumps. Coming out, at most it will take some time and waste some tools.

After Wang Zheng realized the benefits of this new machine tool, he was so excited that he forgot to sleep and eat. He jumped up and down in the armor factory excitedly, urging the craftsmen to hurry up and make things for him.

In three days, he really made the punch.

Of course, this kind of punch press is not the kind of hydraulic punch press or electric punch press of later generations. At this moment, there is neither hydraulic pump nor motor, not even a steam engine, and all actions can only be completed by manpower.

Taichang looked at the shelf as high as Zhangxu in front of him, and couldn't help asking curiously: "Liangfu, have you tried it, is it necessary to be so tall?"

Wang Zheng said without hesitation: "I haven't tried it yet, but it's good to be high, but I'm afraid it won't be strong enough when it's low."

All right, high or low doesn't matter, as long as it works.

Taichang immediately raised his hand and said, "Then let's start."

Hearing this, Wang Zheng ran over immediately, and ordered the blacksmith to throw the small iron block that had been prepared into the nearby stove, and then asked someone to quickly pull up the big block on top with a rope. He gestured to the wooden stake, tied a knot, and then stuffed the rope into the groove.

Soon, the blacksmith clamped out the red-hot iron block and put it into the groove under the punch press. Seeing this, Wang Zheng immediately raised the wooden hammer he had already held in his hand without hesitation, and pointed it at the wooden hammer. The trigger-like thing next to the stake is a hammer.

The end of the rope was immediately pushed up by the upturned wooden square, and with a sound of "whoosh", the hanging big square immediately accelerated and smashed down.

Since there are chutes positioned on both sides, the rapidly falling large cubes will naturally not deviate from the direction. With a "bang", the steelmaking mold is closed, and the small red-hot iron block disappears instantly.

Wang Zheng couldn't wait to order someone to hang up the upper mold a little, then picked up a clamp, clamped out the iron block that had been punched inside, and threw it into the bucket next to it.

With a sound of "呲", before the water mist dissipated, he couldn't wait to reach out and fish out the nail piece.

The nail piece is still a little hot, but it's not hot anymore.

He picked up the armor and looked at it, then scraped the nail on the terrazzo next to him a few times to remove the burrs, then raised the armor in his hand and said excitedly: "Your Majesty, look, the armor is It's done, and it's even more beautiful than it was built."

Taichang took the nail and took a look. Sure enough, the whole nail was round and round, without any trace of beating. It seemed that the nail was really beautiful.

Now, with this new punch, making armor is not a problem at all.

This new punching machine also requires the cooperation of two people, one pulls the rope, and the other burns iron blocks, and the iron blocks can be burned in piles, which saves time. If the craftsman becomes proficient, it is estimated that punching ten in a quarter of an hour is not a problem. of.

In other words, two people can produce at least five or six hundred pieces a day, and a pair of armor can be made in two days!

Taichang made a rough calculation, and then said decisively: "Liangfu, let's make [-] punches like this first."

what?
Five hundred units!
When Wang Zheng heard this, his jaw almost dropped to the ground.

Five hundred sets are five hundred sets of armor in two days, and more than 7000 sets in one month!

[-] sets of Zhajia were made in a maximum of eight months!
Of course, the premise is that he can find so many materials for punching in the shortest possible time.

(End of this chapter)