When Pan Geng moved to Yin, I initiated Jian Shang

Chapter 492 Production efficiency driven by iron tools

After seeing off Zisong and the others, Xinqu became busy again.

In summer and autumn, it is easy to have rain clouds brought by typhoons, so heavy rains are pouring in the south, while showers are common in the north.

However, it goes away quickly as it comes, but it can easily cause waterlogging.

Give construction strength.

Xinqu watched the naturalized people working with iron shovels.

The tools at this stage are limited. In the past, stone tools were used, but as the steel smelting in Pinggu got on the right track, iron farm tools officially began to enter the construction site.

Looking at the people busy in the rain, Xinqu knew that after a while, the progress of the project would be improved.

However, steelmaking consumes too much manpower and transportation capacity.

People need to mine, even if Xinqu knew to use wood as a beam structure to support the mine tunnel.

However, as the depth of mining increases, it is easy to cause mine tunnel collapse.

Moreover, in addition to iron ore, smelting iron also requires charcoal or coal.

Fortunately, the charcoal was still available for harvesting and burning charcoal from the forests that Xin Qu had set on fire.

But the coal is gone.

This thing needs to be coked, a separate furnace is made, and finally it is transported by horse-drawn carriage.

So much so that the current smelting costs are almost sky-high.

But so what?

Iron, very important!

"Uncle Bei, saw."

Xinqu was called, and then looked at the hand saw that was delivered. It was very long.

He raised his brows slightly, and after taking it, he got the carpentry site.

Then someone brought a log.

Then someone was called to pull it together, and it only took half an hour to cut the entire log into eight long strips.

"hiss--"

Everyone who saw this scene was shocked.

In the past, cutting down trees was notoriously laborious. If you wanted to cut the wood neatly, it would take more time to split it, then peel and grind it.

If you want to quickly slice into something uniform in thickness, it is simply a fantasy.

But now, a saw can cut a large piece of wood.

In this way, the design of the keel and even the watertight compartment, which were previously worries about shipbuilding, can be taken out.

Xin Qu took a look at the model of the building ship and decided to make improvements on this basis.

Mortise and tenon joints, spliced ​​keels, and sails.

At the same time, these saws can also be used to make wooden parts, quickly completing the popularization of vertical windmills, keel waterwheels, barrel wheels, etc.

"Follow the requirements of the assembly line."

The person in charge of a local carpenter in Laitong County, Xinqu, explained: “Establish a wood processing workshop to specialize in the production of basic wooden boards with fixed thickness and size.

Then I will order people to produce other necessities based on these boards.

If you need special parts, let them build them separately.

There is also shipbuilding wood, which needs to be dried in advance.

As for the drying room... When the time comes to gather the sawdust, I'll try to design a drying room for drying meat jerky. "

Xin Qu sets the rules.

Standardization is a last resort response when manpower is insufficient.

Although this may cause the final product to become rigid and unable to respond 100% to all situations due to size, thickness, etc., it may even allow you to force the natural environment to adapt to your product, resulting in additional construction costs.

However, the advantage lies in the speed of production efficiency.

Xinqu watched for half a month, and a pile of qualified wooden boards were pulled away.

"Let's go." Xinqu called out to Yuhuai, who had been taken with him recently.

This time something happened to Yujiu, and she was a little worried that he might die at any time.

So he asked Xinqu to teach his son more.

Xinqu didn't refuse, so Huai followed Xinqu to see the sawmill for half a month.

In short, each one then comes to each parts assembly line according to the size.

Some people cut the gears with saws, others polished them with files, and others checked the parts according to their size. Those that failed were thrown into the basket. Finally, the qualified parts were put together, packed into trucks, and driven to the destination.

Then outside, the windmill parts were assembled immediately. A large number of mortise and tenon joints were used, and the sound of hammer hammering was endless. Eventually, the windmills became the source of power, driving the keel waterwheels on the edge of the swamp to continuously draw water and drain it.

The slaves went into the water and used fishing nets to catch all the fish in the local ponds.

Then the fish gather into a separate channel. All the water in this channel comes from the keel waterwheel.

The fish was in the canal, swimming along the current, and quickly reached its destination.

A pond.

Lively fish can be seen everywhere in the pond.

Then, on both sides of the pond, there are water towers.

As the water tower filled up and leaked, the old man responsible for looking after the water tower quickly opened the gate.

The water rushes down and drives the water drain at the drain outlet, which in turn drives the connected keel waterwheel.

This keel waterwheel is specially made, 20 meters long and 1.2 meters wide, and goes straight into the pond.

As the keel leaves rotate, the fish in the pond are immediately stuck between the leaves, just like a conveyor belt, and are brought into the fish killing workshop more than two meters high.

In the workshop, there is a small pool.

When the fish arrive here, they immediately cruise, passing through the sedimentation tank first, then the clear water tank, and then into the holding tank.

The sediment has basically been washed away at this time.

Then the slave reached out to catch the fish, picked up the wooden stick on the side, knocked it unconscious, removed the gills, scraped the scales, and disemboweled the fish.

The fish meat was thrown into another keel waterwheel behind him.

As the water wheel rotates, the fish meat is carried up the slope.

People on the slope fetch the fish, swim it in the running pool, then shake it, apply salt on it, and hang it on iron hooks and stone hooks in front of them.

The iron hooks continued to move forward as the individual water rows rotated. Someone at the front picked them up individually and hung them on different iron frames according to their sizes.

It facilitates subsequent processing so that the temperature does not vary, resulting in different drying rates and shortening the shelf life.

After the iron rack is full, it is immediately pushed into the drying room, and then the surface drying begins for two hours.

The drying room is built on a long furnace.

The long furnace is a masonry structure with hammered iron plates placed on top.

The first drying room you enter is around 30 degrees, the second drying room is around 50 degrees, and the last drying room is nearly 80 or 90 degrees.

Of course, this is just the body temperature and there is no way to measure it at the moment.

Two hours after entering the first drying room.

Someone will pull out the first rack from the other side and push it to the second drying room, where the drying time will be reduced to one and a half hours.

Finally, when you push to the front of the drying room, which is burning with fire, you can see a large amount of water drains driving the blast box to increase the temperature.

The temperature inside can be raised to 300 to 400 degrees in an instant. Of course, the space in the drying room is not small, and there is no mud on the outside, so the heat dissipation is very good. It feels like 80 or 90 degrees, which is about the same.

Pull it out in about ten minutes, let it cool slightly, and then pull it to the side for the second round of salting.

The hook is then removed and reused, and the fish is tied with hemp rope and hung in the sun to dry.

If there is no sun, add a little more drying time.

After drying, you can take it out to hoard or sell it.

This is how a slaughterhouse was formed.

It looked like Yuhuai, who was following Xin Qu, was stunned for a while.

He has seen efficient fish killing, but he has never seen such an efficient fish killing line.

In fact, Xinqu was building this thing when he first came back half a year ago.

After all, it is difficult to solve the preservation problem just by drying fish.

After drying and then drying, the efficiency is not only doubled compared to simply drying, but the shelf life is also extended from the original half a year to one or even two years.

As long as you don't mind that these fish will taste like shoe leather in two years' time.

Now a factory can process almost three thousand kilograms of fish a day. There is one in Xianghe next door, and there is also one in Tianjin County.

Of course, there is also an important salt farm in Tianjin, which uses the sun salt method. After drying out the coarse salt, other seafood will be marinated here in the future.

Now there is the Xin family, which requires copper and iron, and fish and salt.

Xinqu looked at the dried fish for a while, and then said to Yuhuai again: "Let's go, I will take you to make something delicious."

"what?"

(End of this chapter)