After three days of continuous work, Zhou Qingfeng immediately transferred Zhao Ze, along with the entire "Revolutionary Army" engineering department to Jinzhou.It was the first department to be moved away from the front line, faster than Xu Bing’s administration.

The next thing is to see Zhao Ze and Stone.

The "Revolutionary Army" purchased a large number of ingots from Shandong and Tianjin, and these metal materials were transported from Lushun to Jinzhou.Stone in Jinzhou has repaired a large steelmaking furnace, all kinds of earth law and foreign law, technology comes from a steelmaking cultural revolution brochure - this popular technology of the brochure in the Cultural Revolution period, the level is uneven, the technical school library is very much.

The carbon content of the purchased iron ingot is very different, the impurities are also inexplicable, and the quality is good and bad.Stone, the minister of the mining department, squatted in the stove every day with a pair of sunglasses, and led the workers of the hundreds of steel mills to train.After the death of a few daredebunals, everyone understands that steelmaking also has to follow the basic rules.

Using ready-made iron ingots for short-stroke steelmaking can greatly improve the efficiency of steelmaking and save time.The "Revolutionary Army" is missing in order to achieve rapid development in Liaodong, where the threat of the enemy is threatened.

The prototype steam engine was immediately converted to a forging machine after being transported to Jinzhou, and the steel ingots produced by the steel mill were immediately sent to the forging machine for processing.The efficiency of a forging machine is hundreds of times that of a blacksmith, and can work non-stop for 24 hours.The forged metal parts can eliminate various defects in the smelting process, optimize the microstructure, and obtain better quality.

After hoarding enough metal parts, Zhou Qingfeng will rush from Gaizhou to the CNC machining center in Jinzhou, and Zhao Ze will personally process more steam engine cylinders, boiler pots and other components.Repeatedly, one steam engine after another is made like a shear.

"I named it the 'Thirty-two-horsepower steam engine of the 1616."Zhao Ze pointed to a small, ugly home machine to Zhou Qingfeng and said: "Because of the lack of precision parts such as pressure gauges, I have made some simplification of this thing.It’s a bit heavy, but it can be used.At present, the monthly output of five units is mainly used to power the forgings of the steel mill.

Speaking of his own made baby, Zhao Ze is still very proud, "because of the improvement of forging efficiency, iron from Shandong is not enough."Stone has decided to develop several local iron ore mines and coal mines on the Liaodong Peninsula.He will build two more coking furnaces and a steelmaking furnace, but it will take three months to put into operation.”

Zhou Qingfeng does not understand the technology, but is somewhat dissatisfied with the "monthly production of five", "can you produce more points?"

“This cannot be rushed.I am building a mechanical plant, a meter factory.But it takes time.”Zhao Ze shrugged, "All things are blank, there are too many things missing on the entire technology tree, I can only make up a little bit."The steam engine can be increased to a maximum of seven units per month next month.There are many factors that limit production capacity, such as controlling the CNC machining center, I am alone, and you need to cooperate.

I am planning to use the CNC machining center to manufacture some simple handmade lathe parts, from high to low-level transformation, training a group of professional mechanical metal processing apprentices.After all, the digital machining center can easily produce low-precision screws and other machine tool components.We have to get a certain amount first, and then we have to talk about quality.Don’t worry, I have everything!”

Say not to hurry, but Zhou Qingfeng or frown and ask: "When can you engage in muskets and artillery?"

Zhao Ze laughed bitterly again: "When I get rid of the 100 horsepower steam engine, make a stronger forging machine, and complete the manufacturing of the deep hole drilling machine."Instead of flaming guns and guns, think about how to engage in the chemical industry.After all, when there are firearms, our gunpowder consumption will increase significantly, and the amount of money that is now being smuggled from the Ming Army is simply not enough.”

The steel plant in Jinzhou is very simple, that is, several large wooden sheds built by the engineering department.The steelmaking furnace occupies a wooden shed, and the steel water is poured into the mold slightly solidified, and it will be squashed by several workers with a simple crane to the anvil of the forging machine.The steam engine drives a heavy hammer to rise again and again, falling heavily, and the huge force will splash the spark of the steel ingot.

The various components of the forging machine itself are constantly updated in the forging, and the initial forging hammer is only tens of kilograms, and the anvil is not very strong.Now the weight of the hammer has increased tenfold, and the anvil has become thick and heavy.The effect of forging is also increased several times.Industrial production is the ability to continue to reproduce and strengthen.

In addition to the metal parts needed to process the steam engine, the forging machine of the steel plant also produces weapons and agricultural tools in large quantities.The Revolutionary Army had previously purchased a number of spears, and now the half-brothed breasts and helmets are produced under the hammer.These breastplates are two millimeters thick, eight to ten kilograms of weight, and weapons such as bows and arrows and machetes cannot be broken, and ordinary soldiers will have no way to take them.

To break these metal breastplates, it must be a certain modified warrior.But when the small soldiers of the "Revolutionary Army" began to wear this kind of breastplate, Zhou Qingfeng did not believe that there were so many strong and powerful generals who built slaves.Even if the nine-story cultivation is perfect, the magic that can be released is limited - the spiritual power is exhausted, the tired can die those savages, and the turtai is also free to play.

The breastplate or semi-finished products forged in the steel mill will be sent to the armour workshop by some female workers with leather slings and ropes.Zhou Qingfeng reached out and grabbed one and gently knocked, sighing: "Unfortunately, I don't have a good horse at present, nor a strong enough soldier, otherwise I can play with the breast cavalry."

In the cold age, the brooch cavalry was a typical heavy cavalry.When they launched a wall-type charge, they dared to attack the enemy heavy army group, forcibly break through the enemy's position, and disrupt any resistance of the enemy.Now these breastplates will be used to equip a small number of elite troops, after all, they are not large enough.

“How long will I stay in the cold age?”Zhou Qingfeng Tucao.

"Be content, no one wants you to have any cold weapons yet."Zhao Ze said: "The only thing we have to do now is to increase production and try to increase production."If all of our Guards are in armor, it is a terrible military force.”

Zhou Qingfeng put down the half-finished breast armor and went to the front of another forging machine.The forging hammer is smaller, but it controls the full five hammers with a cam.The hammer head that keeps falling is not the breastplate, but the next level of agricultural tools.

Large-scale farming is about to be carried out on the Liaodong Peninsula, and Zhou Qingfeng is buying cattle everywhere.The steel plant currently has to produce tens of thousands of plows to ensure the successful completion of the upcoming spring cultivation.In addition to plowing plows, shovels, shovels, hoes, kitchen knives, iron pots, these things are urgently needed by the "Revolutionary Army".

The hammer driven by the steam engine is the work of day and night, and in front of each anvil is a sweaty blacksmith.When Zhou Qingfeng approached, it was a group of blacksmiths who were changing shifts.Due to the harsh working environment, the blacksmiths of the steel mill will rest every two hours of work, and they can work for six hours.

Seeing the shift of the blacksmith, Zhou Qingfeng went forward and asked: "How many masters, is this hammer useful?"

The blacksmiths of the shift are reddish-bodied and red-haired by the hot-baked face.When they saw the mountain, they were wondering if they were going to kneel.

“Don’t be too scared, I’ll just talk!”Zhou Qingfeng deliberately laughed loudly and made it easier for the blacksmith of the shift.The blacksmiths followed with a chuckle, and half a day later someone said, “Young man, this forging machine is really good, strong, and symmetrical.”It's a lot more comfortable than we used to be here."

One person spoke, and the other blacksmith immediately called it.

In the past, the blacksmith was tired.The master apprentices went together, and the shammer and the hammer kept smashing and smashing for half a day to hit a hoe.When a blacksmith must be in good health, he must eat meat oil and water.Therefore, you can be a blacksmith who can be called rich, and because of this, iron is particularly expensive.This situation existed until the founding of the rabbit, which was completely an expression of industrial capacity.

And now on the hammer, the labor intensity of the blacksmith is greatly reduced, and the quality is more guaranteed.They only need to clamp the iron ingot with a steel pliers to constantly flip under the hammer head, and a handful of agricultural tools can be formed.Production efficiency is increased by dozens of times, and labor intensity is less than one-tenth of the past.

In the past, a master could play two or three farm tools with a student in the morning, and no more physical strength could not stand it.Now a blacksmith can play hundreds of agricultural tools in half a day, and it is not tired - because the steel factory implements piecework wages, all the blacksmiths still want to do another class, and feel that only three hours a day is simply a frailty.Where in the past was this good thing?

“Young man, let’s do six hours a day.”We are not really tired!”A blacksmith said, "I'm going home in these three hours, and I always feel unsteady in my heart."

Yeah, yeah, yeah, other blacksmiths are constantly coming together.

For the blacksmiths took the initiative to ask for overtime, Zhou Qingfeng shook his head and smiled: "It is not only you who want to work, but also other blacksmiths."Our “Revolutionary Army” is still training more blacksmiths, and even recruits blacksmiths in Shandong and Liaxi.Work has left you, what are the others doing?”

"You can hire less."The open-talking blacksmith only thinks about making more money for himself.

Zhou Qingfeng laughed and said, “I know you’re not tired, but I want to hire more people.”Because the forging machine here will soon increase, the work to do will only increase.And here I have one more blacksmith, and it is a good deal for my enemies to be less than a blacksmith wherever they are."

When their demands are rejected, the blacksmiths can only laugh.They only feel that this forging machine is strong, efficient, and saves the fatigue of beating.But they do not know that the number of forgings will be more and more, and they do not know the terrible of this industrialization.In the next few hundred years, rabbits will have to dislike their own steel production capacity - what to do to produce so much steel?You can’t eat it and don’t sell it.

Now Zhou Qingfeng is distressed that his steel raw materials are limited and the processing capacity is limited.The more you develop, the more anxious you want to run into communism.He wanted to make a great leap here, but suddenly someone came to report that Lu Shun came to two groups of people, both named and said that they were young and handsome old acquaintances, and specially came to see him.

“Who?”

“They’re both women taking the lead.One said that Fan Waner, the other said his surname Yuan, but he did not easily tell the name of the guard.But the woman with the surname Yuan also carried a very tall ghost woman, especially the fierce kind."

He immediately understood who was coming to the door.