Chapter 774 What did you say? I don't believe it!
The first practical steam engine of the Han tribe was left in the shipyard. Three days later, the Iron Bull Type I steam engine was also declared complete. When they learned that the steam engine had been used for work, Luo Chong also took his family and Tang Yao to Liuyang County to visit the steam table saw.
And when they arrived in Liuyang County, they learned that this new invention had already caused a sensation in the entire shipyard, and even spread from the mouths of the shipyard workers to the people. Most of the people in Liuyang County knew about such a strange machine, but only the craftsmen in the shipyard had actually seen it.
When Luo Chong brought Tang Yao to the shipyard again, this steam table saw had already been modified by the shipyard craftsmen. The specific modification was mainly in the feeding aspect. It was too cumbersome to use people to push the logs, which in turn limited the efficiency of the steam table saw. Therefore, these shipbuilding masters also used their brains to add a rolling feeding bed at both ends of the table saw. The whole log could be placed on this thing. After it was fixed, only one person was needed to push the log forward, which greatly increased the feeding efficiency.
When Tang Yao saw the steam engine in action, the first thing she said to Luo Chong was, "Luo Chong, can the table saw made of this steam engine also be used in our Tang tribe's shipyard?"
Luo Chong did not hesitate at all, and immediately shook his head and said, "Not yet. First of all, there is only one practical machine in the Han tribe, and it is also very troublesome to make. It is not enough to equip other places for the time being. Secondly, whether it is your Tang tribe, Takumi County, or even the nearest Takeshima, no coal mines have been found yet. If you want to use the steam engine, you can only ship coal from here, and the cost is too high.
Given the current situation , In this case, the windmill sawmill is most suitable for the Tang tribe, because it only needs to be built once and does not require any energy consumption in the later stage. The seaside environment is windy, so there is no need to worry about the efficiency of the windmill. Besides, when there was no steam engine, our Han tribe also built ships. "
Tang Yao nodded. Although she knew that what Luo Chong said made sense, she was still a little disappointed, but she couldn't say anything. After all, the Tang tribe did not belong to the Han tribe. It was understandable that Luo Chong would not give it to them. No one would share their best things with others. In comparison, Luo Chong was very generous to agree to give them the windmill technology.
Luo Chong secretly thought that the development strategy of the Han tribe in the next few years was relying on steam engines. It was not enough for itself, so how could it be given to you? The steam engine is the most important part of this strategy.
After everyone visited, Luo Chong also returned to Hanyang County and began to continue to improve his development plan. By the way, he urged the Power Research Institute to speed up the replication of the steam engine. The first goal was to replicate a Type 1 Iron Horse in its original form. Let's not talk about anything else. First, make a steam boring machine. In this way, in the subsequent steam engine manufacturing process, the steam engine boring machine can also be used to manufacture cylinders, saving a lot of time for the replication of steam engines.
At the same time, the Han Tribe Power Research Institute was relocated again under Luo Chong's order, and moved as a whole to a new county under Xingang County - Industrial County.
Although the Industrial County is a county-level administrative unit, this county has no city walls. It is for the purpose of later expansion and development. A steel rolling mill larger than the city will be built here.
It is also the only factory in the Han Tribe that can roll steel. It will be the cradle of the Han Tribe steam locomotive and the hotbed of railway growth, but these are just Luo Chong's goals. It is not known how many years it will take to achieve this goal.
Luo Chong's most urgent need now is also the most urgent need of the Han tribe, which is to quickly reform the Han tribe mint on the lake island to full steam, and quickly improve the coin manufacturing capacity to meet the new market demand of the nearly 200,000 people in Zhudao and Tang tribe.
This will be an astronomical amount of money, which is suffocating for Luo Chong, because the current mint, which is mainly powered by windmills, can't produce coins at a speed that can meet the current demand.
This may be the effect of the rapid expansion. It is for this reason that Luo Chong had to come up with the steam engine plug-in to deal with the crisis of lack of coins.
While the Han tribe was carrying out the power reform, the Xin tribe, far across the strait, was not idle. They were still carrying out the original resistance plan, that is, to learn the advanced technology of the Han tribe as soon as possible, to be able to manufacture sailboats by themselves as soon as possible, to complete the transaction between Han and Xin about three brigs as soon as possible, and finally to go to the grassland to recruit a large number of soldiers to form their own army.
The first two plans are currently being completed in an orderly manner. Now the Xin tribe has used the steel purchased to imitate all the woodworking tools brought by the Han tribe delegation, as well as the methods of using these tools. In addition, with the technical assistance of the Jinwuwei spies, their woodworking technology has made great progress.
At present, they have successfully copied the first generation of fully manual looms that the Han tribe had assisted them, achieving the first stage of self-production and self-sale of looms, so that the Han tribe's delegation can no longer earn a penny from selling looms.
At the same time, in terms of the most critical vehicles, the Xin tribe has also been able to successfully produce a four-wheeled heavy-duty carriage, which is a brilliant achievement in the transportation history of Zhudao.
As for shipbuilding, although they have no clue yet, they have accumulated a lot of woodworking experience in the process of building cars and looms. I believe that in the subsequent shipbuilding projects, they can also quickly copy a usable sailing ship.
Everything seems to be developing in a good direction, but just when the senior leaders of the Xin tribe were all excited, the recruiting teams that crossed the strait from the dark bridge to the grassland to recruit soldiers also brought them bad news.
"What do you mean? Iron balls? Fire? And thunder-like loud noises? How could the Han tribe have such weapons?"
Looking at the people who were sent to the grassland to recruit soldiers in front of him, and the Maodun defeated soldiers they brought back from the grassland, Commander Xin asked with some disbelief.
"I'm not lying to you. If the Han tribe hadn't suddenly taken out this kind of weapon that we had never seen before, our leader's 60,000-strong coalition army wouldn't have lost so badly. In the battle that day, our troops hadn't even gotten close to Kaiyuan City, and they had only vaguely seen the silhouettes of the Han army before they launched an attack on us.
It was that kind of fire and the thunderous sound that sounded like a punishment from heaven. Do you know how far that thing could hit? At that time, it took us a bowl of rice to ride a horse at a distance. The iron ball hit us, and anything that stood in front of the iron ball, whether it was a person or a horse, was beaten into a meat paste. The army was immediately frightened by that thing, and no one was willing to take a step forward." Maodun's subordinate, who had two braids on his cheeks, said painfully as he recalled the battle that day.
(End of this chapter)
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