I am Peter III, Emperor of the Hexagon of the Goose Kingdom

Chapter 183 Improve agricultural shovels and produce military shovels

It is said to be a dictionary, but it actually covers Russian slang and rhetoric, ensuring that even a 40-year-old adult can re-understand the Russian language after learning.

Even more subtly, under this dictionary, Russian is not so vulgar to speak.

With this achievement alone, Peter thought he had left Frederick behind in education.

After all, German is also famous for its strong rustic flavor.

In the resort on the Gulf of Finland, the lake is sparkling. It is already four o'clock in the afternoon, and the hot weather has dropped slightly.

And this entire inner lake, according to Peter's request, dug a waterway leading to the Baltic Sea, which was planned by Peter a few months before coming to the Gulf of Finland.

On the one hand, it is to turn stagnant water into living water, and on the other hand, it depends on how long it will take to dig through the Baltic Sea from here.

But what surprised Peter was that it took three months for 20 people to cover a distance of only 500 kilometers.

So Peter designed the shovel.

The shovel designed is not a shovel in the ordinary sense, even if the shovel in the ordinary sense is probably found in the East, it was invented in the Shang Dynasty, and it is called 锸.

A shovel in the usual sense is a modern shovel, with a long pole underneath which is an iron shovel, which can be dug by stepping on one side of the shovel.

But this often requires bending over, and long-term work will cause backache and back pain, and you will feel tired soon.

The shovel designed by Peter is actually an improvement of an old man from abroad that he saw before crossing.

This foreign old man made it with only some cheap materials at home. It is easy to operate without bending over, and the working speed is greatly improved. This is useful for the whole of Russia, so Peter used it.

In fact, the principle of leverage is used to add a protruding log on the top of the wooden pole, which looks like a Wing Chun practice post. When shoveling and plowing the soil, the previous action of bending down to shovel the soil is omitted. A twist sideways on this log will shovel the dirt away.

But only this log is still a little tired after drying for a long time. An iron bracket is added above the head of the shovel. The center part of the bracket is an iron needle. When the shovel is stepped into the soil with your feet, the iron needle will Followed into the soil to facilitate crushing the soil.

At the same time, the arc-shaped bracket also fixes the fulcrum of the shovel, and the upper handle saves the effort of bending over to scoop up soil with the shovel.

Since the new shovel equipment equips these workers, the used ones are all good.

That is, half a month ago, the inner lake of this resort was finally connected to the Baltic Sea. After seeing that the efficiency had been greatly improved, Peter asked Vorontsov to draw up a draft, and he signed two decrees.

One is to popularize this kind of shovel nationwide, and the other is to build five thousand short-handled military shovels according to the sketch drawn by Peter.

There is a hero in Liangshan, Tao Zongwang nicknamed Nine-Tailed Turtle, also known as Wushort and Black-faced. He dared to dig the foundation of Mount Tai with an iron shovel, and his weapon was an iron shovel.

The shovel, which was originally a farm tool, became a murderous weapon in his hands.

Of course, the sketches drawn by Peter are not like this. They are for real military use. This kind of military shovel is equipped even in the Eastern Army in the 21st century, and it has many uses.

This thing is absolutely powerful, digging, digging, planing, swinging, chopping, shoveling, chopping, cutting, chopping, smashing, cutting, shooting, etc. can do anything, and it is sometimes more effective than a military dagger in close combat.

Moreover, Russian soldiers are famous gray animals. During the war, they carried shovels, which could not only dig a hole in the flat plains to hide themselves for sleeping, but also be used for close combat with the enemy. The force of the shovel was enough to crush the skull.

You can also help out in the homes of sojourners during non-war times. At the very least, you can fry an egg with a shovel, and you can also supplement iron.

The [-]-handle military shovel Peter has designed three colors, one is army green, the other is pure black, and the other is pure white, which is convenient for use in different combat environments.

Of course, it is not that a soldier carries three handles, but they are placed in the armory and issued or replaced according to the combat environment.

There are two factories implementing this decree, one is the Yekaterinburg Metallurgical Plant and the other is the Ural Metallurgical Plant.

Both places are thousands of kilometers away from Moscow, and the Yekaterinburg metallurgical plant is more than 400 kilometers away.

The Ural Metallurgical Plant was put into operation in 1701 by Peter the Great, and the Yekaterinburg Metallurgical Plant was put into operation in 1723.

According to Peter’s report, the Yekaterinburg Metallurgical Plant now has 50 impact turbines, which can drive 22 sledgehammers, 107 wind boxes, and several wire drawing lathes, cutting machines, barrel drilling tables, rolling cars and other equipment, with a total power of up to 500 horsepower.

Not to mention the Urals, the scale of metallurgy ranks only after Olonets and Kasil-Tula.

Both places handed over samples.

Russia does not need to rely on foreign technology to produce iron products. It is now 1745, and the blast furnace for melting iron in the Ural factory reaches more than 9 meters. The water turbine is used as the output power to drive the sledgehammer to forge wrought iron.

The amount of molten iron in the Urals has reached 770 million poods per year, and the production of ferrous metals has surpassed that of Britain and Sweden. It is now the world's number one. The Urals alone account for four-fifths of Russia's total steel output.

It was not until 55 years later that Britain used fossil fuels to smelt iron instead of charcoal, leaving Russia and other countries far behind.

Peter chose Ural and ordered the Ural factory to smelt the first batch of [-] military shovels.

On the grass by the lake, Peter was lying on a sunshade chair made by a craftsman, and Lomonosov, who had finished compiling the dictionary, stood beside him.

Peter had indicated that he could enjoy the coming evening in cool clothes like him, but Lomonosov respectfully said that he could just stand.

Lomonosov not only stood straight, but also never looked sideways.

He was still puzzled when he was led here by the maid, because Mirkowski and other guards and guards were guarding a kilometer away.

But when he came here in a carriage, he understood why the male guards were so far away.

Because the lake is full of female officials in cool clothes.

Lomonosov devoted himself to fulfilling His Majesty's mission, and spent a lot of money with Andernov. He only heard that Russia has become a fashion center, and he also saw noble ladies wearing clothes that surprised him when he returned to his command.

But he had never seen such coolness before.

Two pieces of cloth on the upper body and one piece of cloth on the lower body, Lomonosov's old face was flushed.

And His Majesty was also naked from the upper body, with only a piece of cloth on the lower body.

Lomonosov kept his duty as a courtier and did not expect too much. He was called by His Majesty, and he did not know what His Majesty ordered him.

But no matter what His Majesty orders, he will do his best.

Lomonosov was thrilled just by the thought that parliament was drafting a bill on how to study the dictionaries he and Andernov compiled.

What an honor!
Moreover, His Majesty even wrote his and Andernov's names in the dictionary.

All honors should belong to His Majesty.

(End of this chapter)