Ming Dynasty: Traveling through the harem, Zhu Yuanzhang was dumbfounded

Chapter 227 Using Manganese Steel Manufacturing Process
As for why he chose manganese steel instead of stainless steel, the main reason is that manganese steel is relatively cheap compared to the various special processes required to make stainless steel.

At present, the Ming Dynasty has no way to support itself and is completely spending money on scientific research. This money is equivalent to using something to plug a black hole.

It can't be blocked no matter how hard you try.

For a railway section of the same distance, with the manufacturing process and price of stainless steel, only one-third of the cost of manganese steel is needed to pave the entire distance.

I believe that by then, the railroad carriage will be able to complete its mission, and the Ming Dynasty will be able to use steam engines as power to transport railway rails to various important transportation cities.

After all, the weather in the northern border of the Ming Dynasty will become increasingly cold, and horses are simply not suitable for this climate. Only the ancestor of the steam engine can withstand it.

With Yang Chen's affirmative nod, Tao Chengdao became more confident about this matter. After all, Zhenjiang Prefecture was originally founded by the other party.

As long as Zhenjiang Prefecture gets better and better, it will be better and better for everyone here.

And then, it was Zhu Chong's turn to speak.

Yang Chen woke him up.

"The manganese steel issue has been resolved. Now let's let Governor Zhu speak. Please welcome him with applause."

As soon as the words fell, the entire conference room burst into applause.

Soon, a young man sitting in the first seat in the first row to the left of Yang Chen stood up and waved to everyone.

Compared to the Zhu Chong who had a rebellious look on his face a year ago, the current head of the Zhu Mansion can be said to be quite mature.

The temperament of being calm even when faced with a catastrophe is becoming more and more obvious.

Picking up a manuscript in his hand, Zhu Chong said in his clear voice:

"Everyone,
I hope that members of relevant departments can take good note of this and strengthen their work after returning.

Can we achieve breakthroughs in steam engine technology and complete the goal of mass-producing steam engines and various construction equipment within the specified time?

So the next step is the key task.

Leaders of all departments and team members must understand that Zhenjiang Prefecture shoulders a heavy burden and will make great contributions after the success, so they must do their best and remember not to forget their original aspirations and not give up national affairs for the sake of immediate petty gains.

Everyone encourages state-owned enterprises to increase their members, but members must undergo various assessments and pass the assessments before they can join the state-owned enterprises.

There must be transparency among the members. The accountants around any member can only be people from the Zhenjiang government. No false accounting is allowed. Once it is discovered that any state-owned enterprise member has false accounts and fails to pay taxes in accordance with the "Ming State-owned Enterprise Taxation Law", the criminal law will be triggered and the member and the original introducer will be punished together.

There are safeguards in place as well.

We should strengthen policy improvement and promote policy awareness so that people know what our Zhenjiang government is doing, rather than leaving them in the dark.

If even the people don’t know what we are going to do, then how can they cooperate with us when our work spreads?

The process is not necessary and violence is not allowed. If someone maliciously obstructs, the person involved must be asked to come to the government, and someone will be dedicated to accompany the person to the argument.

As for talent, the Academy of Sciences must not have anyone taking advantage of their seniority, nor must it have the bad custom of standing up and toasting based on social connections.

If the old people are not convinced and steal the patents by relying on their power because the newcomers are skilled and daring, then don’t blame me for removing them from top to bottom.”

As he spoke, Tao Chengdao, the president of the Academy of Sciences, turned pale.

He was not blaming Zhu Chong for reminding him, but because two months ago, a descendant of Lu Ban from Zhenjiang Prefecture who went to the Academy of Sciences to participate in departmental research looked down on a newcomer who had better knowledge of gear and steam engine research and development than him.

So the so-called "successor of Lu Ban's technique" began to suppress this newcomer, and finally forced him to leave the Academy of Sciences.

He originally wanted the other party to leave and no longer get involved in this mess, but in the end he decided to give it a try and ran to the building where Yang Chen lived to appeal for justice.

After learning about the whole thing, Yang Chen personally examined the young man and found that he could indeed make perfect additions to the steam engine structure he had given. So Yang Chen immediately ran to the Academy of Sciences and beat up the successor of Lu Ban's technique.

From then on, no one was allowed to take advantage of their seniority or look down on newcomers within the Academy of Sciences.

In short, here, seniority ranks second and contribution ranks first. Whoever has greater ability and contributes more will have more say.

Zhu Chong's explanation lasted almost half an hour, which made everyone present feel overwhelmed.

They knew each word clearly when separated, but when they were put together they were somewhat obscure and difficult to understand. Of course, they did not dare to ask openly now, because if they could not even understand this meaning, then they would not be qualified to sit in this official position.

Over the past year, they have actually almost adapted to this new way of speaking.

Yang Chen waited until Zhu Chong finished speaking, then he stood up and reminded him one last time:
“That’s about it. I hope you can cooperate with each other to complete the next tasks.

Otherwise, His Majesty will not spare you, and I will not let you go either."

For these officials drawn from various parties, Yang Chen's warning still worked.

No one wanted to offend this young man, and the welfare benefits provided by Zhenjiang Prefecture were indeed good, so they had no reason to pay the price of their lives for such a small benefit.

When the meeting is over, each department returns to their workstations as normal, and the director or department head conveys what happened in the meeting.

Yang Chen also returned to his building and began to plan the next step for Ming Dynasty.

The future order will remain unchanged and there will be no major surprises.

The Chen Dynasty, which is the future Vietnam, will begin to fall into the hands of the Ming Dynasty. As for Thailand, Thailand is currently in a very chaotic situation.

Kings and lords from all factions emerged, and this group of people could still jump around for a while while the Ming Dynasty was still building a railway from Nan'an to the border.

When the Daming Railway is completed in the future, Daming will be able to continuously send troops to the border, and then use a variety of large-scale equipment to attack and occupy.

To put it bluntly, it is a flat push.

This is not a difficult task for the Ming Dynasty at the moment.

The next plan of Zhenjiang Prefecture is to make a full-scale attack on the machinery manufacturing industry.

The principle of the steam engine had been discovered long ago, and it only took time for the right materials to appear, and the steam engine would naturally appear.

The transportation capacity of all parties in the Ming Dynasty has been greatly improved. This is a scene that can only appear in the future world.

Yang Chen was very happy that the place he founded could appear a thousand years earlier.

Today, Zhenjiang Prefecture's textile industry, smelting industry, mining industry, and human resources management business are decades ahead of the entire Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Biao was planning to gradually expand these plans to the entire Ming territory. Before that, he had already asked Yang Chen for his opinion.

Finally, we came to the conclusion that it would be best to implement it in some areas of the Jiangnan region.

Although he had his people inside the state-owned enterprises, most of the people would certainly be caught off guard by such a sudden reform. No one would have thought that a dynasty change would abolish the previous rules, let alone that the Ming Dynasty had already reached this stage.

Zhu Biao also considered this issue and finally went out to some areas for testing. Among the dozens of provincial and municipal governments in the Ming Dynasty, only a few places could use the Zhenjiang Prefecture team.

This also requires officials in some regions to adapt to Yang Chen's impartiality and fairness.

In fact, this process still breeds a lot of bureaucratic people. These guys have long been discovered by Yang Chen's people. Whoever dares to show signs will have a miserable end, and death is the easiest outcome.

There's nothing we can do about it, sometimes human nature just can't stand the test.

Flipping through the documents on the table, Yang Chen muttered to himself.

"The machine tool manufacturing industry is also starting to get back on track, which is a good thing."

Yes, Yang Chen wants to develop machine tools in Daming.

Perhaps this idea seems fantastic to many people, but Yang Chen is very clear that according to the current technology possessed by Zhenjiang Prefecture, there will be no problem in manufacturing a simple machine tool.

The Industrial Revolution was not just the emergence of the steam engine, but because hand-rubbed machine tools improved the functions of the steam engine in all aspects, and then the steam engine used more powerful power to improve the machine tools.

The situation is mutually beneficial for both parties.

In Yang Chen’s impression, during the first industrial revolution, the problem of the steam engine cylinder was solved by the emergence of machine tools.

Later, the improved steam engine was perfected and used to create more complete and more precise machine tools.

Only in this way can the steam age begin to progress towards the electric age.

Yang Chen found a skilled craftsman from the Armory Bureau in the Imperial Palace. At the age of fifty, he could still carve perfect rifling without wavering. He used the jade carving method to slowly start processing the structure of the machine tool.

Finally, we successfully built a gun barrel boring machine not long ago, which can process precise and hard objects.

This technological breakthrough symbolizes that the Ming Dynasty may have the opportunity to enter the era of ironclad fleets sailing the oceans ahead of schedule in the future.

In addition to the gun barrel boring machine, Yang Chen's purpose in promoting mechanical reform is to allow more talented people to conduct research and development in this area.

Machine tools such as lathes, drilling machines, milling machines, grinders, etc. must be developed.

In this way, the era of Ming Dynasty's wooden treasure ships can be transformed into the era of iron treasure ships.

Based on what is currently known around the world, once the Ming Dynasty has iron ships made of metal, it would be equivalent to driving a tank to the battlefield to massacre those guys using cold weapons.

With the advent of these machines, it is not difficult to process small objects such as screws, springs, rivets, etc.

When the industrial technology is fully mature, Yang Chen will start looking for oil in the northwest or in Siberia near Europe.

If it is refined, the main land weapons of the cold weapon era, World War I and World War II can be created.

The name of this thing is, 'Tank'!
next morning.

Yang Chen slowly got up under the guidance of the gathered maids.

Pushing aside the red-faced skeleton beside him, he went straight to the bathroom to wash up.

After breakfast, I got dressed and walked towards the Zhenjiang Iron Smelting Plant without doing anything.

Regarding manganese steel, there are already many people in the Academy of Sciences who like to explore rare metals and stones and have produced many examples of steel.

Yang Chen has tested these things personally.

Finally, he ordered people to forge a furnace of steel.

A month later.

That is, in the winter of the 13th year of Hongwu, less than a month away from the Spring Festival. Before the New Year, the Iron Plant will finally officially change its name to the Steel Plant.

This day is another day that will go down in history for the Ming Dynasty.

Zhenjiang Prefecture of the Ming Dynasty officially smelted manganese steel with good toughness and hardness.

These manganese steels solved the problem of accidents that occurred frequently on the railway from Zhenjiang Prefecture to Nanjing City.

After obtaining manganese steel, the Ming Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang officially announced something: within the territory of the Ming Dynasty, any refugees who had no food to eat or no place to live could go to the nearest county government office.

Just register and confirm your identity, then you can officially become a railway worker of the First Bureau of the Ming Dynasty Railway. You can receive two taels of silver as salary every month, as well as ten kilograms of rice and ten eggs as food subsidies.

The more you do, the more you can get.

The moment this order was implemented, the whole country was in an uproar. Some people even decided not to farm anymore and went to work as railway workers, building two horizontal and two vertical railways.

All four railways are centered on Nanjing City. The two southern stations are in Yunnan and Guangdong respectively, and the two northern stations have not yet been determined because the territory of the Ming Dynasty continued to expand outward.

There were more and more Siberians and East Slavs in the army. Seeing that the Ming Dynasty was becoming increasingly powerful, many Mongols and Turks took the initiative to defect to the Ming Dynasty on the border.

Without exception, these people came with bargaining chips. They either knew the location of the constantly relocating dynasty tribes of the Northern Yuan Dynasty, or they knew many languages ​​on the European continent.

If they acted as translators, the Ming army would not have to capture a large number of prisoners during the Northern Expedition but would not be able to extract any information from them.

Nowadays, Zhu Di has a resounding nickname in the extremely cold land.

"The Great Ming Bear King!"

Yes!

After Zhu Di led his subordinates in Peking to kill all three tribes of the Nuzhen clan, this guy began to tentatively confront the Northern Yuan Dynasty.

These guys in the Northern Yuan Dynasty never imagined that all three Jurchen tribes would be killed by Zhu Di, the vassal king.

By the time Zhu Di arrived in front of them, the two sides were close enough to create sparks, and thus an unprecedented battle began.

Zhu Di led his 3,000 men to fight against 30,000 scattered soldiers and generals of the Mongolian and Northern Yuan dynasties.

There are also many elite Mongolian troops from all sides, all of whom are heavily armored cavalry equipped with Blood Pagoda armor.

If Zhu Di's behavior was not considered to be so arrogant, these guys would not have shown up.

The final outcome was naturally Zhu Di's victory.

Of the 30,000 Mongolian guerrillas, nearly 15,000 were killed, nearly 3,000 were captured, and the rest either died or escaped.

As for those bloody pagodas, the elite heavy armor left behind by Kublai Khan was turned into minced meat.

(End of this chapter)