Brother Zhu Youxiao

Chapter 410 Industrial Production
"Woooo-"

"No problem. The locomotive has a horsepower of 150, and the total efficiency can be 26%. The locomotive weighs 13 jin. It can travel at [-] mph when empty and [-] mph when fully loaded. It can tow [-] jin, excluding [-] carriages."

"The fourth version of the steam engine has become..."

In the early morning of the first day of May, when Zhu Youjian and Zhu Youxiao were still escaping the summer heat in Dading Palace, Wang Zheng and others from the Armament Academy conducted round after round of experiments outdoors under the sun.

After more than three months of experimentation, all the problems of the fourth version of the steam engine have been resolved, and the steam locomotive that was tested on it has also demonstrated capabilities far exceeding Wang Zhengzhi's expectations.

Looking at the steam locomotive running continuously on the ten-mile railway track at the new test site of the Military Armament Institute, Wang Zheng couldn't help but clenched his fists, but he also knew that running fast was useless, the important thing was whether the court could afford it.

Suppressing the excitement in his heart, he asked the doctor next to him:

"How much coal is consumed per mile?"

He didn't ask how much water was consumed, since most of the areas where the trains go will have no shortage of water.

Facing his inquiry, Dr. Hanlin also looked through all the data he wrote down, and finally raised his head and responded to Wang Zheng:

"Eight catties of coal are consumed per horse, and eight thousand catties of coal are consumed in one hour."

"Okay, okay..." Hearing this data, Wang Zheng finally cheered up.

When Zhu Youjian brought Zhu Ciran and the others here in February, the steam engine weighed 6 catties and traveled only [-] miles per hour, while the steam locomotive consumed [-] catties of coal per hour and could only pull [-] carriages and Pull more than [-] kilograms of goods.

After further solving the problems of air tightness and thermal efficiency, the power of the fourth version of the steam engine instantly increased, especially on the load, and the effect doubled instantly, reaching the level of steam locomotives in the West in 200 [-] years later.

If this version of the steam locomotive is used to pull people, it can use 850 carriages to carry 220 to [-] passengers while ensuring coal and water, and travel [-] miles for nearly four hours at a stretch.

If it is used to transport grain, or transport gunpowder and artillery, then he can pull [-] catties of goods.

If the [-] jin was grain, it would be enough for three thousand soldiers and horses to feed for ten days; if it was gunpowder, it would be enough for six hundred cannons to fire for two hours.

Of course, more importantly, if it is used to transport troops, it can take the Beijing-Jiayuguan railway planned by Zhu Youjian, and transport more than 600 fully equipped soldiers to Jiayuguan in six days.

If multiple trains are dispatched at the same time, it only needs fifty trains to depart one after another, and ten battalions and more than 3 soldiers and horses can be delivered to Jiayuguan within six days.

What is the concept of more than 3 soldiers and horses?
You must know that Junggar, which caused the Qing Dynasty a headache, had a military strength of only 4, which was not as good as Lin Dan Khan in the late Ming Dynasty and An Dahan in the late Ming Dynasty.

The Ming army was able to continuously deliver millions of catties of supplies to Jiayuguan in six days, and there was no need for a train to go further. Even if the Ming army walked to the Tianshan Mountains, they would not be as embarrassed as the Qing army who used mules and horses.

"The fourth version of the steam engine can be mass-produced! The steam locomotive can also be put into production, but the steam engine ship still needs time to experiment."

"We can't blindly experiment with small rivers, we must set up a branch by the sea."

Many thoughts flashed through Wang Zheng's mind. With these thoughts in mind, he rushed to the Military Industry Research Institute with a document full of experimental data.

"Menghou! Good news! The thing is out, take a good look at this!"

Stepping into the Military Industry Research Institute, the moment he saw Bi Maokang, Wang Zheng couldn't help it, and loudly announced the research results of the Industrial Research Institute.

When he ran to Bi Maokang, he also noticed that Bi Maokang was working with a group of people on a multi-barreled firearm similar to the "Thunderbolt".

"The fourth version of the steam engine is out?"

After being yelled at by Wang Zheng, Bi Maokang asked him without thinking.

After all, Wang Zheng is mainly responsible for steam engines, steam locomotives, steam boats, and internal combustion engines with only a little principle.

"It's done, it can be put into production, as long as the failure rate and failure point are continuously detected in the subsequent production, and improvements can be made accordingly."

Wang Zheng handed his document to Bi Maokang, and Bi Maokang also looked at the contents of the document and couldn't help but took a deep breath.

After all, Wang Zheng was still an official and scientist of the people's livelihood, so he didn't know the role of steam locomotives in the military.

It can be said that for the current Ming Dynasty, the role of the steam engine in the military is far greater than that of the people's livelihood.

"Okay, okay..." Just like Wang Zheng, Bi Maokang said hello three times in succession.

"This matter must be told to His Highness immediately, and someone has to hurry up and tell His Highness the data on the document!"

After recovering, Bi Maokang handed the document to a doctor next to him, and the doctor hurriedly went to do it after hearing the words.

When he was going to do business, Wang Zheng looked at the musket that looked like the "Thunderbolt" on the table, and he couldn't help but wondered:

"This is……"

"This one?" Bi Maokang turned the handle of the musket, and then the barrel turned accordingly, and he also explained to Wang Zheng:
"This is an improved firearm modeled after Mr. Chang Ji's Thunderbolt. The subject is the "Multi-barreled Hand-operated Machine Gun" left by His Highness."

"Multiple hand-operated machine guns?" Wang Zheng frowned, and then stepped forward to take a look, but he was not interested in these, he just took a look and then looked away.

"What is the use of this multi-barreled hand-cranked machine gun?"

Wang Zheng didn't understand, so he asked Bi Maokang, and under his inquiry, Bi Maokang also explained.

In fact, the Ming Dynasty was the first to study multi-barrel muskets, and the famous general Qi Jiguang was the first to invent multi-barrel muskets.

When Qi Jiguang was stationed in Jizhen, he specially invented the multi-barreled musket "Five Thunder God Machine" in response to the Mongolian cavalry's preference for confrontation and guerrilla warfare.

This kind of multi-barreled musket has three, five, and seven eyes, and can provide intensive firepower. The longest range is 120 steps, but the effective range is only [-] steps. It is a sharp weapon for suppressing Mongolian cavalry.

When using the Five Thunder God machine, two people are generally used as a group to shoot, one person supports, rotates the barrel, and one person aims and shoots.

There is a front sight on the muzzle of each barrel, which can be fired in turn in an instant, which is roughly equivalent to the revolver of later generations.

It played an important role in the wars against Mongolia and against Japan and Korea. The most famous battle was the Battle of Pyongyang. At that time, the Japanese general Konishi Yukio led the main force of the Japanese army to resist and was hit by the five thunders of the Zhejiang soldiers. The injury caused Li Rusong to capture Pyongyang in one fell swoop.

As for the Thunderbolt, it is an improved version of the Wulei Shenji, invented by Zhao Shizhen, a firearms expert in the late Ming Dynasty.

There are five barrels on the body of the gun. After the soldiers use it, they turn 72 degrees after each shot to fire another barrel.

In addition, the gun barrel is equipped with an iron round plate as a shield, which can block some arrows.

In the fourth year after the successful development of the five-tube Thunderbolt, Zhao Shizhen invented an improved "Thunderbolt", which can reach up to eighteen tubes after this improvement.

After the improvement was successful, Zhao Shizhen improved again in Wannian, which could fire 28 to 38 bullets in a row. Received support from the financially exhausted Wanli court.

After Bi Maokang got the project blueprint and principle of "Hand-cranked Machine Gun", he immediately brought Zhao Shizhen's "Artifact Spectrum" and developed it bit by bit according to the principle.

After the development of the percussion gun, he devoted himself to the research and development of hand grenades and hand-cranked machine guns, but no matter what, he was not very satisfied.

"Where is the problem?"

Wang Zheng looked at the hand-cranked machine gun developed by Bi Maokang, and asked puzzledly, while Bi Maokang said to the doctor next to him:
"Reload, let's show it first."

"Yes" seven or eight doctors heard this, and immediately began to take a paper bullet that was placed not far away.

This kind of head uses warheads, and the bullets wrapped in greased paper are filled one by one into the barrels of the eighteen-tube hand-cranked machine guns.

Then Bi Maokang signaled Wang Zheng to stay away, and several doctors aimed a loaded gun barrel at the firing pin, then picked up the wooden whistle and blew it.

"Beep-"

The ear-piercing sound of the wooden whistle spread throughout the Military Industry Research Institute. Two hundred steps away, several doctors began to come out from the corner, inserted the wooden sign at the shooting location, and then quickly evacuated.

"shoot!"

"Boom-boom-boom..."

An older doctor gave the order, and the younger doctor started pulling the trigger.

The firing pin fired the firing charge behind the bullet, and the bullet came out with a gleam of flame.

Immediately afterwards, the assistant doctor next to him began to turn the barrel, and this multi-barrel musket was set to be buckled by Bi Maokang. As long as the first barrel was aligned, the subsequent seventeen barrels would be buckled one by one.

At the same time as the barrel was closed, the shooting doctor pulled the trigger again.

Just like that, the combination of the machine gun and the Thunderbolt began to fire at a constant rate of one shot every three seconds.

When the eighteen rounds were finished, the two doctors began to use a fine brush to clean the eighteen barrels, and then filled the bullets.

This process took about half a cup of tea, and this long time instantly nullified the firepower of the previous eighteen consecutive shots.

Originally shooting eighteen bullets in less than one minute, this speed is enough to stand out in this era, but after cleaning up the reloading time, the shooting speed of the gun instantly changed from eighteen bullets in one minute to eighteen bullets in six minutes.

You must know that the percussion gun developed by Bi Maokang can already reach a shooting speed of eight to twelve in one minute.

Therefore, such a firearm is tasteless to anyone.

"Why not focus on one barrel, and then connect all the bullets in series to form a bullet belt as written in your Highness's project?"

Wang Zheng glanced at the subject content on the table, and then raised a question.

"It can't be done..." Bi Maokang shook his head: "If it is done according to the project, then the firing powder of the bullet must be wrapped with a copper casing, and the power of the gunpowder is not enough, and the technology of the casing is not enough."

"Then why not study from the source? Start with gunpowder..." Wang Zheng put down the project blueprint.

"Oh..." Bi Maokang sighed:

"we can only do this……"

After all, he continued to take his Ph.D. to conduct other research according to Zhu Youjian's subject, but Wang Zheng could only shake his head when he saw him like this, and returned to his industrial research institute.

The two didn't know how terrifying the firearms they were discussing were for the army of this era, and the discussion ended in vain.

But while they were discussing, Tang Qi from the Armament Academy went to Yanshan with the letter paper with the data written.

After leaving Mentougou, Tangqi saw a roadbed construction site in full swing. Tens of thousands of workers lined up from Mentougou to the gate of the capital.

The original post road looks like an alley in front of the roadbed of the government road and the railway.

Tang Qi took a few glances, and then continued to ride his horse towards Yanshan Mountain.

Along the way, he changed horses without changing people. After six hours of raiding, it was already midnight when he rushed to Dading Palace in Yanshan County.

Wang Chengen didn't wake up Zhu Youjian, because the two brothers went hunting in the mountains during the day.

After spending the night smoothly like this, when Zhu Youjian woke up at Maoshi, Wang Chengen arranged for Yang Yuanai and the others to help Zhu Youjian take a bath, and at the same time, he handed over the emergency from the General's hospital to Zhu Youjian.

The content on the paper is similar to the data content researched by the Military Armament Academy, and Zhu Youjian said after seeing it:

"In the future, when news from the Armament Academy comes, it will be handed over to me as soon as possible, regardless of whether I am sleeping or what I am doing."

"Yes..." Wang Chengen obediently agreed, but he also knew that Zhu Youjian was not angry.

"The cost is 300 taels, which is more than the previous one..."

Seeing the price of the locomotive, Zhu Youjian frowned slightly and just sighed, but then he looked at Wang Chengen and said:
"How about the construction of the six steam engine factories?"

"At present, the factory building has been built, but the machine needs to wait for the Armament Academy to produce ten industrial steam engines first, and then use these industrial steam engines to manufacture new industrial steam engines."

"The situation given by the Academy of Armaments before is that, in the case of ten industrial steam engines and manual craftsmen, the six factories will be able to be fully installed in the factory in about three years, and the expected production volume will be reached in four years."

The six steam engine factories represent [-] large high-pressure steam engines, [-] industrial steam engines and [-] agricultural steam engines each year.

However, everything is difficult at the beginning. The factory does not mean that if there is money and someone, it can be fully produced immediately, and it will take time to accumulate machines.

"Prepare slowly. When the Jingmen Railway and the Beijing-Tianjin Railway are opened to traffic, I want to see these two railways put into use immediately."

"Yes..." Wang Chengen responded quickly, while Zhu Youjian continued to look at the information in his hand.

The emergence of the fourth version of the steam engine represented not only the explosion of steam locomotives, but also the advancement of various machines such as steam ships and tractors.

[Estimated 500 steam engine ship data: about 12 miles per hour, [-] million catties of load, estimated [-] horsepower, [-] catties of coal and [-] catties of water per hour. 】

[Estimate: The nine-thousand-material steam ship can carry 200 million jin of coal, with a range of 300 miles, and 4000 million jin of cargo at the same time, and the cost of the ship is about [-] taels]

The steam ship needs to add a lot of equipment, so the cost of the nine-thousand-material ship has doubled several times. Zhu Youjian understands this very well, but he found that Wang Zheng's estimate was wrong.

Thinking of this, he walked out of the bedroom with the data paper, and walked to the study with his hair loose.

Wang Chengen followed behind him all the time, and stepped forward to grind the ink quickly. After grinding it, he took out Zhu Youjian's commonly used brush and handed it over. Zhu Youjian also sat in his seat, took out a blank memorial, and dipped it in ink to write. Got my own advice.

He found that Wang Zheng did not design a water circulation and water collection system in terms of the loading capacity of steam ships, nor did he use water as a fuel reserve.

Maybe Wang Zheng and others thought that people don't need to worry about water at all when they are at sea, but Zhu Youjian is very clear that the current fourth version of the steam engine cannot use seawater.

Daming passed the "reciprocating steam engine" and entered the "multi-expansion steam engine". The internal pressure of this steam engine is very high. If seawater is used as steam power, a large amount of impurities will be left after the seawater is burned, which will eventually cause the steam system to break down. explode.

In this case, Daming needs to keep a "sea water desalination system" on the steam ship.

This system is not difficult. It is nothing more than using the stove on the ship to boil seawater, generate water vapor while heating the seawater, and then cool and condense to obtain pure water. This is the daily life experience of the East and the West.

Therefore, Zhu Youjian's proposal to Wang Zheng and others to study the steam engine ship is that the ship needs to prepare a device for burning seawater and collecting water vapor, and set aside one-third of the load to store pure water to reduce the weight of coal.

The battery life is [-] miles, which is too much for Daming.

For Zhu Youjian, there are only a few supply routes for steam ships, from Daming to the south of Yingzhou, then to the north of Yingzhou, then follow the warm current to the Gulf of Alaska in North America for another supply, and finally go south to San Francisco and Los Angeles to end the journey , set foot on the way home.

100 million catties of coal needs to burn 800 million catties of water to achieve a cruising range of 500 miles, while the wooden ships of the Ming Dynasty can only carry [-] million catties.

One-third of the ship is filled with water, which is enough for the steam engine to run for twelve hours, so a water vapor recovery device has to be found, and with the "sea water desalination" device, it can basically satisfy the ship's long-distance voyage of [-] miles .

But in this way, only 250 million catties can be used to carry people and goods.

After writing this part, Zhu Youjian stopped writing, let out a sigh of relief, and then glanced at the forecast about the tractor.

The estimate of the tractor is not a big problem. After repeated tests, the original weight of 130 catties has been reduced to [-] catties. With the optimization of the performance of the steam engine, the cost price has been reduced to [-] taels.

Wang Zheng believes that if the weight of the tractor can be reduced to 100 jin, the cost will be reduced to [-] taels, but the horsepower of the tractor will drop sharply, and it may not be possible to cultivate even [-] mu of land for [-] hours a day.

After checking it, Zhu Youjian thought it was unnecessary, because he was satisfied with the data of 130 taels, [-] mu of land a day.

Right now, what Daming has to do is not to set up many tasks that will take a lot of energy, but to leave him to solve some relatively simple tasks at the Military Armament Academy.

130 taels of a steam tractor, it can cultivate [-] acres of land day and night during the busy farming period of half a month.

The terrain determines that such a heavy and immobile tractor can only use its hands and feet in the Great Plains, and it is very difficult for Yunnan, Guizhou, Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian and Zhejiang.

What Zhu Youjian wanted to do was to build a factory for production first, and at the same time use troops against Jianlu in the northeast.

After destroying Jianlu, use tractors to develop the northeast and the old port.

Don't even think about North China and Northwest China. At most, the Northeast is suffering from bitter cold, which leads to a decrease in crop yield per mu, but in North China and Northwest China, there is a severe drought and no harvest.

There are nearly [-] million mu of plains to be developed in the northeast of Ming Dynasty. Steam engines are used to develop the local area, and the old port is developed at the same time. In this way, Daming can have two granaries, one in the south and one in the north.

In the late Qing Dynasty, 4000 million people used their hands to reclaim nearly 60 million mu of cultivated land in [-] years. Once the steam engine works in the northeast, the amount of cultivated land in the northeast will increase steadily.

The low-temperature grain production in the Little Ice River is not hindered. Even if the yield in the pass is two stones per mu, and the northeast is seven buckets per mu, then the northeast can use tens of millions of mu of cultivated land to feed back the north.

Zhu Youjian has been in the Northeast for ten years, and the population of Liaodong has further increased to 700 million.

Right now, the arable land in Liaodong is already very tense, and immigrants will disturb the local area. If you want to release the immigrants to the Great Plains in the north, you must first solve the potential local military threats.

Once Daming used tractors in Liaodong, made a lot of propaganda, then wiped out the Jianlu, and then launched a policy of distributing tractors to the north of the village and exempting land taxes, then there is no need for Zhu Youjian to drive them away, the people will choose by themselves.

Three years is enough for the more than 100 million households in Liaodong to give birth to another 10 people.

The more people talk and eat, the more they eat. If they don't move, they will have to follow the footsteps of land annexation. When the family has children and their life becomes worse, they will naturally go north.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youjian felt that [-] agricultural steam engines were a little short.

"The production capacity is still not enough, we can only wait for time..."

With a sigh, Zhu Youjian handed the written memorial to Wang Chengen: "Send it to Wang Zheng at the Military Armament Academy, and send people to build it in Tianjin for a generation..."

Zhu Youjian paused, and then said:
"Construct the "Daming Ship Research Field", assign it to the Armament Institute for management, and mobilize the local Dagu battalion to garrison."

"Yes..." Wang Chengen responded with a salute, and Zhu Youjian continued:
"Bicycle, pocket watch, clock and other factories can speed up. After the steam engine factory's industrial steam engines are manufactured, the first batch will be sent to these factories, and then sent to the Nanchang Weaving Bureau."

"In addition, prepare for the new policy. A new Environmental Sanitation Bureau will be established in the Ministry of Industry, and a doctor will be appointed to manage the environmental sanitation workers in the world."

"The sanitation workers are responsible for cleaning the county town. The daily wages are calculated according to the lowest in each region. Some old women and old people are recruited to clean the streets. They should be recruited according to [-]% of the total population of each county."

Zhu Youjian had long wanted to solve the problem of urban sanitation, but the southern city of Beijing made him unable to do so.

After adding soldiers, horses and yamen servants, they have been in charge of city sanitation, which is a bit distracting.

Many old women are the main force in small family workshops. If Daming uses the fourth version of the steam engine in the market, it will undoubtedly affect their livelihood.

Industrialization must go, but the livelihood of the people must also be taken care of.

To recruit sanitation workers at the lowest wages and solve the livelihood of hundreds of thousands of old women and old men is Zhu Youzhi's policy of benefiting the people.

Even though the wages were low, they still had a mouthful to eat, and the sanitation workers in the Ming Dynasty didn't have so much garbage to deal with. Most of them were dirt, feces, oiled paper and the like. The work was not difficult.

Zhu Youjian sent people to ask some widowed and lonely old people in the nursing home in the capital. Most of them did not want to eat this bowl of relief porridge from the court, but no one was willing to hire them when they left the nursing home, and they had nowhere to go if they wanted to work.

Now that the drought has retreated for three years, Zhu Youjian still has two and a half years to solve some social problems. When the drought comes back, he will be devastated and can't take care of these.

"Slaves leave..."

Faced with Zhu Youjian's idea of ​​the Environmental Sanitation Bureau, Wang Chengen didn't say anything, and directly responded and withdrew.

After he stepped down, a copy of the memorial was sent to the capital and various places in the Armament Academy...

　The second is estimated to be around [-] o'clock in the evening

　　
　
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