I am one year older than Chongzhen

Chapter 225
However, at this time, the steel in the base area is already outstanding, and after being forged with a ton of heavy hammer, the quality of course surpasses that of Bailian Steel.

The quality of steel is getting better and better, which brings many benefits.

It turns out that with good steel, ball bearings can be made.

Lubricating with tallow is not a problem. The key problem is that the yield of pure manual forging is not high, the output is too low, and the cost is too high.

Because the best smelting steel is very expensive, and it needs to be made by the most skilled blacksmith master.

It has to be checked and accepted according to Huang Yi's standardization, and any deviation from the specifications will be judged as unqualified.

Huang Yi calculates the cost by giving enough materials and wages.

But for any product that is not available in this era, and it turns out because of the golden finger, the price has to be increased by more than double, and some even several times or dozens of times.

The price increase depends on whether it is easy to imitate. Bearings, a product that can revolutionize wheels, should be sold at the same price as silver.

That is to say, assuming that a bearing weighs one catty, if it is exported, the selling price must be 16 taels of silver, and the asking price is more than 30 taels.

In the case of such a low output, it is not enough for self-use, and it is absolutely impossible to sell the bearings separately.

Make cars, make comfortable and light four-wheeled carriages for export, and sell them to Xuanfu and the capital to earn money from dignitaries, nobles and landlords, so as to achieve the effect of robbing the rich and helping the poor.

In order to prevent a large number of wealthy people from hoarding gold and silver and causing the market economy to enter an endless loop.

The economy in the last days is deformed. The front is tight and the rear is tight, and the dignitaries are even more extravagant.

If the four-wheeled carriage produced in the base area is equipped with shock absorbers, hand-operated glass windows, and a radiator with its own honeycomb coal stove to provide hot water circulation.

This kind of spacious and bright four-wheeled carriage no longer feels like the bones are falling apart when sitting on it.

It will definitely be sought after by rich dignitaries, landlords and old fortunes similar to the luxury cars of later generations.

Without qualified steel, it is impossible to imitate steering shafts, bearings, hinges, hubs and shock absorbers in the short term.

You can't make a hand-paned window without glass.

The base area will definitely be able to monopolize the luxury passenger carriage market and have pricing power.

Therefore, Huang Yi drew a drawing of the four-wheeled carriage, and asked Lan Jinkui to be responsible for the manufacture of the prototype, and strive to complete two road tests within six months.

Huang Yi likes to say important things three times when he comes to inspect and inspect factories and workshops.

The most talked about is standardization, standardization, third pass or standardization.

Huang Yi, who is in the highest leadership position in the base area, attaches great importance to standardization, so he has produced bearings, wheel hubs, and steering shafts with uniform specifications.

Therefore, the freight carriages in the base area are no longer just two-wheeled, and the number of four-wheeled carts with doubled load capacity increases every month.

The wheel revolution can double the efficiency of carts. Even if the output of steel cannot keep up with the demand, you have to grit your teeth and bite the bullet.

In the future, only four-wheeled carriages will be added to the base areas, and inefficient two-wheeled carriages will be phased out.

The Harqin tribe was attacked, the nobles in the tribe were wiped out, and the gold and silver treasures, pearls and agates collected exceeded 20 taels of silver.

There is no point in keeping money. Buying food and hiring labor to burn cement, smelt steel, and build houses is the top priority.

Anyway, a strong laborer who mines and transports stones works five hours a day for a month, earning no less than one tael of silver.

The scale of the city will definitely become bigger and bigger, Huang Yi is reluctant to part with the arable land, anyway, the cement factory needs to store a lot of raw materials.

Therefore, a plan was made to expand the city to the southeast, excavate the mountain bag there, and first level out two square kilometers of land.

The wisdom of the working people is endless. When they break open stones, they collect all the ones that are suitable in size.

Stones weighing [-] to [-] catties were of course used to build the city walls, and a large amount of stones were also needed to build residential houses and collective dormitories.

Because there are inexhaustible stones, the brick and tile factory basically does not need to burn bricks, and burns tiles most of the time.

Not only mining stones, this winter, the number of people digging coal and iron ore has also increased a lot.

It doesn't matter if you don't need so much output for the time being, you can reserve it to deal with the sharp drop in output during busy farming.

Despite Huang Yi's correct guidance, the blueprints drawn by Huang Yi himself, and the noted process flow, Casting Cannon experienced more than a dozen failures.

It's true that failure is success.

The master Liu Han who led dozens of craftsmen to cast cannons finally accumulated experience and mastered the correct method.

The cannons produced in the four bases are still intact after five or six hundred shooting experiments.

Four guns and two specifications, Huang Yi did not use three-pound guns and six-pound guns to calculate the shells, but used the [-]-gram catty of later generations.

Huang Yi saved a lot of information on muzzle-loading smoothbore guns in the [-]th, [-]th, and [-]th centuries in his mobile phone.

It is known that Europe at this time has begun to use three-pound bronze guns that are easy to transport, and this gun is usually called a regiment gun.

It is also known that the Swedes once made the lightest artillery out of leather.

This kind of leather artillery capable of firing three-pound shells is only 75 kilograms. It is made of copper core iron hoop and leather. It has also participated in actual combat, but was finally abandoned because it was too easy to damage.

Regimental guns were relatively light, weighing about 120 to 140 kilograms, usually drawn by one or two horses, and required only two gunners to fire.

These guns can fire all common ammunition, and the effective killing distance of shotgun shells reaches 60 meters.

The three-jin regiment gun produced in the base area is nearly four feet long, has a diameter of seven centimeters, and weighs three hundred catties. It can fire shotgun shells composed of one hundred shot or iron balls weighing three or four coins.

what does this mean?
It means that one horse can pull the cannon cart, and two horses can pull the cannon at a gallop.

It means that one gun can be fired by a hundred musketeers.

It means that the Tartars and Jiannu cavalry will be covered by bullets when they charge!
hey-hey!There is no machine gun, but there is such a big killer that spews out a hundred bullets in an instant. In the future, fighting with Jiannu and Tartars will definitely cause greater damage with fewer casualties.

Europeans called this kind of gun a regiment gun, because at first there was one gun for each regiment, and later it was increased to two guns.

The regiment artillery is actually a field run, and the infantry equipped with muskets is still unable to resist the intensive charge of the cavalry.

But with a certain proportion of field running that can quickly fire shotguns, you will not be afraid of cavalry.

This can just make up for the shortcomings of the small number of cavalry in the Han army.

Huang Yi didn't know exactly how many people there were in a regiment in Europe at this time, anyway, he felt that it was only equipped with one or two cannons.

In future wars, firepower will definitely prevail. Of course, the more artillery the better.

His plan is for the artillery to form a separate army, directly under the command of the base headquarters.

When participating in the war, each hundred plus one or two artillery flags using one to four three-pound guns.

(End of this chapter)