I want to be emperor

Chapter 275 Hantian Arsenal

Luo Zhixue stayed in Daye Industrial Base for three days, and spent three days inspecting Daye Iron Works, Hantian Armory Factory, Hantian Machinery Factory and other factories.

Although the inspection time was long and short, Luo Zhixue visited every factory in the industrial zone.

He also focused on inspecting and listening to the situation of the three factories of Daye Iron Works, Hantian Arsenal, and Hantian Machinery Factory.

Luo Zhixue went to see the situation of the Daye Iron Works on the first morning, and also gave important instructions.

In the afternoon of the same day, Luo Zhixue went to Hantian Machinery Factory to inspect it. This machinery factory is quite satisfactory. At present, the research and production of Hantian Machinery Factory are mainly all kinds of manufacturing machinery and the mechanical equipment needed by other factories.

Among them are small mechanical equipment directly driven by manpower, such as manual grinding machines, drilling machines and so on.

These seemingly human-driven equipment seem to be very backward and low-end, but in fact these hand-made machines are indispensable tools for precision machining, and the demand is very large, but the machinery factory itself is very interested in this Such equipment is in great demand.

Then there are some medium-sized mechanical equipment that use power storage.

The last is large-scale mechanical equipment using hydraulic power. This kind of large-scale equipment is relatively difficult to manufacture and the cost is high, but its effect is just right.

Whether it is ironmaking, mechanical equipment manufacturing, or the terminal military industry, they are all indispensable equipment.

Now the armor in the Great Chu Empire, the iron pieces inside are all processed in large batches by hydraulic forging machines, drilling machines, grinding machines and other equipment, so that such a huge production capacity can be achieved.

If only relying on manual forging, drilling and grinding, it is impossible for these workers to produce such a large output.

When Luo Zhixue inspected the factory, he gave important instructions: while Hantian Machinery Factory is required to stabilize and increase production, it also needs to take small steps and fast running, improve while producing, and strive to continuously update and upgrade. Come out with better machinery.

However, the continuous improvement of equipment requires experience and time.

Whether it is Hantian Machinery Factory or Xiangyang Machinery Factory, their continuous improvement of products requires the advancement of material technology on the one hand, and on the other hand, they also need to continuously collect the use of equipment and solve problems based on actual use experience. question.

It is worth mentioning that Hantian Machinery Factory has built a relatively large-scale bearing production line.

In the early days, Luo Zhixue instructed the development and manufacture of bearings, but the route was wrong at the beginning. Luo Zhixue directly asked craftsmen to make spherical bearings. Later, he found that the raw materials were not good enough, and the processing was not good enough.

And for a long time, craftsmen have been thinking about how to make better knives for processing...

As a result, the performance of the tool has been greatly improved, but it still cannot meet the manufacturing needs of the bearing.

Later, after finding that this road was temporarily impassable, the craftsmen began to shift their direction to cylindrical bearings.

The requirements for materials for cylindrical bearings are much lower, and even bearings made of bronze as a raw material can barely be used.

Later, after starting to use iron materials for production, basically cylindrical bearings can also meet some preliminary needs.

And the first application of cylindrical bearings is not the terminal product carriage, but the various mechanical equipment of the machinery factory itself...

Although Luo Zhixue started to get the bearing to make the carriage and artillery run faster, in fact, the application of the bearing in the industry itself is larger and more important.

After the use of cylindrical bearings, the performance of various mechanical equipment produced by the two major machinery factories of the Great Chu Empire has been greatly improved.

These cylindrical bearings were not used in carriages until production became redundant.

It can be said that the successful research and development and mass production of cylindrical bearings have greatly promoted the industrial level of the Great Chu Empire, and greatly improved the processing accuracy and processing efficiency.

After seeing the Hantian Machinery Factory, Luo Zhixue visited the Hantian Armory the next day.

The Hantian Arsenal is naturally one of the important factories in the Daye Industrial Base. It can even be said that the reason why the Daye Industrial Base was able to build up such a large scale was to provide Hantian Armory with various matching.

And this arsenal is also directly related to the military strength of the subsequent Great Chu Empire.

Because of the importance of Hantian Arsenal and the tight construction tasks, Luo Zhixue directly transferred Ding Gangyi, the supervisor of Xiangyang Arsenal, to serve as the first supervisor of Hantian Arsenal.

Ding Gangyi has already proved his ability when organizing the Xiangyang Arsenal. He has a good set of means in building factories and organizing production. As for the follow-up normal production and operation of the factory and follow-up research and development, these are not what he is good at. .

For this person, Luo Zhixue also made the best use of him. Since Ding Gangyi is very good at building factories, he should be transferred to Daye to serve as the first supervisor of Hantian Armory, in charge of the construction and early production of Hantian Armory. , and strive to build the Hantian Arsenal as soon as possible and put it into production.

And Ding Gangyi did not disappoint Luo Zhixue's expectations.

Ding Gangyi took a step behind Luo Zhixue, and introduced the Hantian Armory ahead of him to Luo Zhixue: "Now our Hantian Armory has completed the first phase of the project, the workshop has been completed, and most of the equipment has been installed and debugged. In the stage of large-scale production, it is expected to reach the design output within one month."

"According to your Majesty's will, the design scale of our Hantian Armory is larger than that of Xiangyang Arsenal, and we strive to make Hantian Armory a core arsenal that can support the unification of China!"

"One month later, after our first phase of the project is fully put into production, the production capacity is expected to reach [-] muskets per month!"

Hearing this, Luo Zhixue showed a satisfied expression: "The first issue is [-], um, not bad!"

The monthly production of [-] muskets means that the monthly production capacity is enough to arm [-] musketeers.

At present, among the main divisions of the Great Chu Empire Army, there are only about 5000 musketeers in a division.

That is to say, the production capacity of the muskets of the first phase of the project of Hantian Arsenal is enough for the muskets of more than half of the new main divisions.

It is slightly more than the current musket production capacity of Xiangyang Arsenal.

Ding Gangyi continued: "Our artillery production capacity is not small. During the construction, a considerable part of the resources of the first phase of the project were invested in the construction of the artillery branch. After the first phase of the project is fully put into production, it is expected that our two The design production capacity of various types of copper casting field guns such as half-jin to nine-jin field guns has reached between [-] and [-]."

"The specific output depends on the needs of the military. If we need to produce more two-and-a-half-pound field guns, then the total output will be larger. If the urgency of the nine-pound field gun is greater, then we will produce nine more. If the field gun is [-] more is more cannon cannon, the total output will be correspondingly lower."

"Our armor production capacity can also reach about [-] sets, but most of them are relatively cost-effective half-body armor or simple half-body armor. For full-body armor, the estimated production capacity is only about [-] sets. If there are more, it will have a greater impact. The total production capacity of the armor."

Speaking of this, Ding Gangyi sighed: "In order to achieve such a large production capacity, the Ministry of Industry not only transferred a large number of technical personnel from the Xiangyang Arsenal, but also successively selected from prisoners of war, young and strong refugees, and civilians. More than 1 workers have been trained in advance."

"In this way, production can be organized directly after the completion of the first phase of the project."

"The above is the first phase of production capacity, followed by the second phase of the project and the final third phase of the project."

"When the third phase of the project is completed, the monthly production capacity of our Hantian Arsenal will reach [-] muskets, [-] field guns of various types, and [-] sets of armor."

"Others include cold weapons, two-and-a-half-pound short cannons, eighteen-pound mortars, and 48-pound mortars."

"The specific output depends on the production priority at the time, but in general, our production capacity is fully capable of arming a main division for a month."

Luo Zhixue nodded after hearing this: "This production capacity is necessary. Only with such a production capacity can we maintain rapid military expansion and fight."

"The newly formed army needs a lot of new equipment, daily combat wear and tear also needs equipment replenishment, and the gradual replacement of the garrison also needs equipment. Your production tasks are very heavy!"

Luo Zhixue has great expectations for Hantian Arsenal!

Although the first phase of the project has just been completed, the workers are still familiar with the production, and it is still in the stage of small-scale production for the time being, and the output is not as good as that of the Xiangyang Arsenal.

But one month earlier, and one and a half months later, Hantian Arsenal will directly replace Xiangyang Arsenal and become the most important armory of the Great Chu Empire.

After more than half a year, probably at the end of this year, the production capacity of Hantian Armory can be doubled again.

With the addition of the Xiangyang Arms Factory, the output of the Great Chu Empire will be able to reach [-] muskets a month, and about [-] field guns of various types.

There will be no shortage of other armor, swords and spears, and iron cannons.

With such a huge production capacity of guns, the Great Chu Empire Army will be able to pile up the guns and guns, and Ming Ting will be piled to death!
It's just that this production capacity seems huge, but whether it can be achieved in the end depends not only on the factory, but also on the funds.

The current arsenal is full of gold-swallowing beasts!
It doesn't mean that after the factory is established, it will be able to produce guns continuously. You still have to spend money to pay workers, purchase raw materials, and many other costs.

You even have to pay taxes...

Even if the matter of paying taxes is a matter of changing the left hand to the right hand for the empire's finances, it can still be regarded as the operating cost of the arsenal anyway.

Manufacturing weapons and equipment requires money!

Looking back, if the finances of the Great Chu Empire deteriorated, they would not be able to spend so much money to maintain the normal production of the arsenal. No matter how large the design capacity of the Hantian arsenal was, it would be useless...

(End of this chapter)