The end of the Ming Dynasty swept the world

Chapter 851

Of course, the lead bullets produced in this way still need to be polished by hand. At this time, ordinary women, not artisans, can also participate, and they can be shaped with a little polishing.

After such improvements, they now produce around [-] new bullets per day, but there is no loss to the lathe, which is mainly used for turning corks.

This data is naturally far behind compared with later generations, but it is almost enough for this era.

Taking 180 million bullets a month as an example, it is enough to deal with a battle involving [-] rifled guns.

But [-] rifled guns are completely invincible in this world.

And Ding Yi still wants to improve it, such as the thunder acid tribute he proposed.

"Lei Gong is also made?" Ding Yi asked excitedly at this time.

"It should be, the emperor will come and see." Li Zhongyi giggled, and took Ding Yi to see the newly made Lei Suan Gong.

As a time traveler, Ding Yi certainly knew that Lei Gong was also called Lei Suan Gong. Just by looking at the name, he knew that it had something to do with Gong (mercury).

But what other ingredients are synthesized, Ding Yi has never studied it in his previous life, nor has he looked at it carefully.

But Lei Gong is also called Lei Suan Gong, so there must be acid, and then it will explode, which means there are flammable substances, alcohol.

Ding Yi can at least remember these three things, but how these three things come about depends entirely on the experiments of scientists and engineers themselves.

The engineers of the Craftsmanship Bureau, after many tests, finally a European first synthesized nitric acid, and then produced nitrate with tribute.

After numerous tests, the laboratory exploded several times, injuring several people. After more than a year, the compound fulminate synthesized with alcohol (ethanol) was finally determined.

It sounds a bit simple, engineers have gone through many experiments to synthesize ethanol, nitric acid, nitrate, and fulminate in the last step.

Fortunately, with the three substances provided by Ding Yi as a reference, they saved a lot of detours.

Therefore, the leucine tribute, which was not invented until 1799, was produced more than 100 years in advance.

The entire invention took more than a year, and it was only invented under the condition that Ding Yi provided three kinds of materials as the basis.

It is conceivable that those scientists in the later generations will completely rely on their own groping, without reference, and it is very difficult to synthesize a new substance, either by luck or by talent.

Li Zhongyi and the others have already tried the characteristics of Lei Suan Gong, and it is indeed easy to explode.

The next step is to use it to make the Legone fire cap. Once the Legone cap is made, the development of firearms has entered an epoch-making progress.

The rate of fire of rifled guns will once again be greatly increased.

After leaving the Firearms Bureau, Ding Yi followed Li Zhongyi to the Science and Technology Bureau of the Craftsmanship Division.

The people here are all migrated from Dayuan, and all the people who used to build steam engines in Dayuan have all migrated here.

At present, there are more than 100 technicians in total. In the manufacture of fulminate, the scientists here also provided advice and helped a lot.

Since the invention of the steam water extraction machine, the people of the Science and Technology Bureau further used it on the machine tool, thus manufacturing the pressure minting machine.

According to this kind of development, the kinetic energy can be improved in the future, and even a whole piece of plate armor can be cast.

But Ding Yi does not plan to promote plate armor. Now that he has entered the age of firearms, plate armor is useless, and his weapons are leading the world. There is no need to manufacture plate armor.

So Ding Yi still wants to apply steam power to trains and ships.

Boer, Mito, Ye Atu, Fetil and other old comrades all cordially met Ding Yi.

"Your Majesty, this way please." Boer excitedly led Ding Yi to the river.

There is a river next to the Science and Technology Bureau's site, which is also specially used to test future ships.

At this time, in a house by the river, they had already built a steam engine as big as a later tank.

"So big?" Ding Yi was dumbfounded.

"This is a test product, mainly to test his kinetic energy." Bord said: "It can be scaled according to the proportion."

The steam water extraction machine has been available for more than a year. After more than a year of improvement, the current kinetic energy has been greatly improved, but it is still not enough to pull the cart.

The Bureau of Science and Technology conducted an experiment, loading a cart weighing [-] stones of grain, and the current steam engine could not move it.

"High pressure." Ding Yi subconsciously said: "We still have to find a way to deal with the pressure."

The first thing in the world to push a locomotive on a track was a high-pressure steam engine.

"You build a track again, and the resistance is very large with only a cart. No wonder you can't push it." Ding Yi became interested, and immediately asked someone to take the blueprint.

Li Zhongyi also knew that Ding Yi would often draw pictures when he was in a mood or inspired, and he was ready for it long ago.

Ding Yi drew trains and railroad tracks.

"With the track, on the one hand, the direction can be fixed, and on the other hand, the resistance can be reduced, so that the steam engine can push the cart."

The Craftsmanship Bureau directly filled the cart with things, and it must not be able to push it.

"Every time the emperor thinks, it is refreshing." Mito also admired.

Fortunately, Ding Yi has a thick skin and is calm and composed.

Ding Yi asked the Craftsmanship Bureau to build a 100-meter track first, and then use a steam engine to drive the box for a try.

Of course, the most important thing is to improve the steam engine and increase its power.

In fact, steam engines can be divided into single-cylinder, double-cylinder or even multi-cylinder, but Ding Yi doesn't understand, so he can only rely on the engineers to figure it out.

Fortunately, he gathered the top scientists in Asia and Europe in this era, unlike those scientists in later generations who struggled alone.

Then Ding Yi looked at many new inventions of the Science and Technology Bureau.

This side specializes in the manufacture of new machines.

New lathes, drilling machines, boring machines, planers, and what surprised Ding Yi the most was that he saw a new spinning machine.

In the early days of development in Lushun, Ding Yi bought raw silk, cotton, velvet, etc. directly from the Xu family in Songjiang and the Jiangnan area in order to save money, and then spun and weaved by himself.

At that time, the entire Ming Dynasty used the water-turning spinning wheel handed down from the Song and Yuan dynasties.

At that time, it was the earliest machine in the world to use water-powered spinning, four centuries earlier than Western water-powered spinning machines.The water spinning wheel was invented in the late Southern Song Dynasty (1127-1279) and prevailed in the Central Plains in the Yuan Dynasty (1206-1368 A.D.).

The structure of this water-turned large spinning wheel is relatively complicated, consisting of three parts: spindle, water wheel and transmission device. It is bulky, with a total length of about 9 meters and a height of 2.7 meters.By converting the kinetic energy of the water into the kinetic energy of the large spinning wheel, the work of automation is realized.Each spinning wheel can spin 100 catties of yarn per day, and its efficiency is more than 30 times that of ordinary spinning wheels. It can be called the most advanced spinning machine in the world at that time.

Ding Yi still got the prototype of the machine from the Xu family in Songjiang, and then made his own in Lushun to weave cloth. The effect of this is that he can save more than half of the cost of buying cloth directly to sew clothes.

Lushun was relatively poor at that time, and he did this to save money.

As he now unifies the country, ascends the throne as the emperor, and improves and expands the production of silk cloth, it is on the agenda.

Improved spinning machines did not appear in Europe until the Industrial Revolution in the 18th century. At this time, there were wars everywhere in Europe, and there was no stable life. Naturally, no one paid attention to spinning.

So Ding Yi definitely needs to go ahead.

The Bureau of Science and Technology began to study improvements three years ago. What Ding Yi saw this time was the improved new spinning machine.

The new spinning machine is similar to the spinning jenny in the 18th century. There are 16 spindles operating at the same time. It can also operate multiple yarns in a set order, which greatly improves his efficiency. Each spinning wheel can Spin wonderful two hundred catties.

The most important reform of the spinning machine is the power source.

China was the first to use water power, and Europe only invented water power spinning machines after the 18th century.

The use of water-operated machines is of great significance in the history of the textile industry. In the past, when manual machines were used, textile workers could operate the machines at home, but once the power was used, the workers could not leave the power source, so they were regarded as The beginning of the factory system, the first factories in history were established to manufacture textiles.

In the original history, in 1785, the barber Edmund Cartwright invented the hydraulic loom, which increased the efficiency of weavers by forty times.In the same year, Thales applied the steam engine to textile machinery as a driving force, and it was quickly popularized, further greatly improving the efficiency of weaving.

Ding Yi's Science and Technology Bureau now uses steam power instead of water power.

At this time, Li Zhongyi pointed to the new spinning machine and said, "Using steam power instead of water power has two advantages."

"A spinning machine has become smaller and does not need hydraulic drive as before, so the overall length has been reduced from nine meters to four meters, reducing the occupied space."

"It can be stopped manually at any time. When it needs to be paused, the machine can be stopped and then started again."

Ding Yi was very excited when he heard this: "This, this, contact the Xu family in Songjiang, the court, no, I personally funded it, and jointly opened a factory with the Xu family."

"Now, the factory can be opened."

Ding Yi decided to build the first factory of this era in Songjiang, a factory specializing in spinning.

"Factory?" Li Zhongyi was thoughtful. This concept exists in their Lushun Group. They have an iron pot factory in Dayuan, and various factories in Lushun and Jeju, but what the hell is the emperor's own investment?

The wealth of the Daqian Empire is almost the richest emperor in the founding of the past dynasties. The wealth of the rich people in the world has been looted by Ding Yi, and the emperor actually wants to open his own factory.

Li Zhongyi couldn't help but rolled his eyes.

But he soon knew why Ding Yi did this.

That night, Ding Yi called Li Zhongyi, Zhang Jing, Zhao Dashan, Song Fei, Wei Jiye, Chen Youfu, Yao Xinhan and other old brothers, together with his brother-in-law Ruan Siqing, into the palace for dinner.

Li Zhongyi, Zhang Jing, and Zhao Dashan all ran out from Daxing Fort together. Ruan Siqing had been helping Ding Yi earn money by traveling by sea in the early stage, and almost died at sea several times.

Therefore, these few people can be called Ding Yi's most confidantes.

"Your titles are hereditary, and I feel sorry for everyone." Ding Yi sighed.

"What the emperor said, I am grateful to you—" Zhao Dashan began to blow again.

(End of this chapter)