Daming Crazy Emperor

Chapter 302 This is a crazy era
These are crazy times.

At this time, the Continental Renaissance was in the ascendant, and a large number of writers, artists, scientists, etc. sprung up like mushrooms after rain.

Dante, Leonardo Da Vinci, Michelangelo, Shakespeare, Cervantes, Galileo, Pascal, and other world-renowned masters have set off a wave of ideological progress in the European continent.

Dennis Papin, Thomas Seville, James Watt and other key figures who promoted the development of the steam engine will also appear in Europe one after another.

At this time, Daming had already begun to delve into the application technology of steam engines in various fields.

The age of steam in Ming Dynasty has begun!

Of course, if the steam engine is to be widely used in various industries, there must first be enough steam engines.

Therefore, the Ministry of Industry quickly invested a lot of manpower and material resources, and began to frantically study machine tools to increase the production capacity of steam engines.

And Taichang also gave enough support. He directly ordered people to bulldoze the ruins of the Longevity Palace to the west of the imperial city, the dirty punishment warehouse to the north, and the Shouming Hall to the south.

To be honest, some steam machine tools are not difficult to develop.

It can be said that as long as there is an idea and a concept, it will be realized soon.

For example, a forging machine, the most primitive forging machine is simply to replace the mold of the punching machine with a hammer!
Of course, considering that the workpiece will quickly cool and harden during forging on the forging machine, the forging speed of the hammer must be appropriately accelerated.

None of this troubled Wang Zheng. He took a group of disciples to tinker with it for a few days, and he tinkered with a brand new forging bed.

In the steam engine factory, in the crude factory building that was just built, Taichang looked at the forging machine, which was nearly twice the size of the ordinary punching machine, and couldn't help nodding with admiration.

To be honest, his hands-on ability and even his research and development ability are not as strong as Wang Zheng and others. He just has some cross-age things in his mind. To turn these things into real things, he has to rely on Wang Zheng and others.

Therefore, the technology or development level of these people is particularly important to him.

At this moment, the progress of Wang Zheng and others is quite remarkable. It can be said that they all have the level of professional engineers, and their own understanding has been added to the things they developed, so there is no need for him to mention them everywhere.

How fast is this forging machine forging things?
As soon as Wang Zheng waved his hand, a disciple walked up to the big stove next to him, put on a huge cowhide glove, picked up an iron clamp, and directly clamped a red-hot cast copper rod out of the fire, quickly clamped it into the In the semi-circular groove under the forging bed, lift your foot and hit the pedal below.

"哐嘡", "哐嘡", "哐嘡", the iron hammer on the forging bed was constantly smashed down under his frequent jogging, and the clamp in his hand also moved quickly with the hammer moving up and down. Turn up.

The original two-inch thick copper rod was like dough, shrinking and growing at a speed visible to the naked eye, and after a while, it became a thin copper rod only a little over one inch.

The connecting rod of the steam engine is one inch, and after forging, a certain processing thickness must be left. Forging the copper rod into this shape is fine.

The disciple directly cooled the forged copper rod in the bucket of cold water next to it, then took off his gloves, tested the temperature with his hand, and then respectfully handed it to Wang Zheng.

Wang Zheng couldn't help showing off Taichang: "Your Majesty, look, originally this cast copper rod required a skilled craftsman to forge for a long time to barely meet the requirements, and the outside is not very round, and there are edges and corners everywhere, so it is not very convenient to process. The ones forged on this forging machine are different, not only are they firm, but also very round on the outside, and they are very convenient to process.”

Taichang took it over and took a look. Sure enough, except for the square part where the clamp is held, the other parts are round, and the shape is very regular.

This block is actually used for auxiliary processing, and it must be cut off when it is processed into a finished product, Taichang is also aware of this.

It seems that the forging machine has been successfully developed, and the lathe and drilling machine are next.

He nodded in approval repeatedly, and then asked, "Yangfu, how are the lathes and drilling machines?"

When Wang Zheng heard this, he couldn't help but said awkwardly: "The drilling machine and the lathe machine still have a little problem, Master Bi and Chang Geng are trying to find a solution."

small issue?
what is the problem?
Hearing this, Taichang raised his hand without hesitation and said, "Go, let's go and have a look."

The workshops of this steam engine factory are also classified according to their functions. There are casting workshops, forging workshops, as well as workshops dedicated to drilling and cutting.

In mass production, there are tens of thousands of pieces at one time, and each process must be concentrated to complete the speed. If each person takes a workpiece and processes it from the beginning to the end, then it is not mass production, but It was there to grind foreign labor.

Therefore, there are different workshops for machine tools with different functions.

At this moment, the workshop has just started to be built, and only a few walls have been built, and a few simple sheds have been built. The conditions are quite poor.

However, all the senior officials of the Ministry of Industry were enthusiastic and didn't care about these things at all.

When Taichang followed Wang Zheng into another workshop, Bi Maokang, Song Yingxing and others were lying under a simple bed, frowning and thinking.

These guys are crazy about developing stuff.

You know, the lowest rank among them is also the servant of the third rank, and now they don't care about their image at all.

What are you all thinking about lying there?

Taichang couldn't help but walked over and asked curiously: "Menghou, what are you thinking?"

Seeing the emperor coming, Bi Maokang quickly got up and cupped his hands and said, "Your Majesty, we are thinking about how to clamp all the parts. This drill press is very powerful when drilling things. Many things can't be clamped. Follow the drill bit!"

Oh, it turned out to be this little problem.

Taichang possessed himself and took the baffle they were trying to clamp tightly, looked at it, and couldn't help smiling.

It is indeed a little difficult to clamp such a round copper plate with the fastening means at the moment, but it is different with fasteners.

What are fasteners?

Screws are the simplest fasteners.

He directly waved at Song Yingxing and said, "Chang Geng, do you still remember the screw I told you about in Jinling last time?"

Song Yingxing hurriedly got up and cupped his hands and said: "Your Majesty, I still remember, but that thing was too troublesome to make, and it didn't come as fast as the rivets, so I didn't do it later."

Of course, you can use rivets to connect those iron plates faster, but you can't use rivets to fasten them.

Taichang squeezed the baffle in his hand and said: "It's actually very simple to clamp it. You just need to make a bigger iron table, open a few slots in the middle, put the nuts in the bottom, and press a few iron blocks with holes on it. Then pass the screw through the middle of the iron block, connect it to the nut under the table, and tighten it firmly."

Uh, what screw nuts?
When Bi Maokang, Wang Zheng and others heard the words, they were all stupefied, because Taichang hadn't explained to them in detail what screws and nuts are.

Song Yingxing was surprised when he heard the words.

He thought about it carefully, then slowly nodded and said: "If there are screws and nuts mentioned by the emperor, it must be no problem to clamp these things, but the screws and nuts are too difficult to make, even a skilled A craftsman can't carve a set in one day."

Uh, who told you to use carvings!

Well, if it's the first set of molds, it does need to be carved out, and it needs to be carefully crafted.

However, once the mold comes out, it is easy to process in batches.

Taichang thought for a while, and then suggested: "You can have someone carve a mold out of [-]-year-old steel, and then soften the iron, punch it into the shape of screws and nuts, and then soften it, and use the mold to process it." After a while, don’t screws and nuts come out? Screws and nuts are good things, they can be used in many places, why do you ask craftsmen to carve them one by one, of course it is to carve out molds for mass production!”

It turned out that it was softened and then processed!

To be honest, Song Yingxing never thought of carving a set of molds, let alone softening the iron before processing.

Song Yingxing didn't think about it at that time because the iron block was red hot and scorched to death.

However, this time is different.

"I understand!"

As soon as Taichang mentioned it, he was almost insane. He immediately jumped up from the ground and ran out excitedly.

Alas, this guy.

Seeing this, Taichang couldn't help but shook his head with a smile.

(End of this chapter)