At night, there are also some oil lamps in the shed of the wood processing plant.

Seven or eight old carpenters and young apprentices were working overtime around a few carpentry lathes.They accepted a task from the engineering minister Zhao Ze - to imitate different specifications of bearings with hardwood.

After the "repair for the Great Leap Forward" provided by Xu Hongru, Zhao Ze can also independently control his own industrial killer "CNC Machining Center".He had already made a lot of industrial machinery using some of the raw materials stored in the space-time island technology school, but he soon faced a thorny problem - many key components were one less, especially bearings.

Due to the technical difficulty of crucible steelmaking, Stone of the Ministry of Mines directly shook his head and said that it was impossible to make qualified alloy steel in the short term.Zhao Ze can only find a way to solve the problem of key parts, the first thing to solve is the various types of bearings.Without bearings, a slightly more high-end industrial equipment is impossible to talk about.

Bearings are a precision life, the only good news is that the current "Revolutionary Army" used in the various machinery on the performance requirements of bearings are not high.For life and load, it can be used.This work became a difficult task for carpenters to overcome.They are currently changing to become pliers, and sooner or later they will have to face this problem.

Zhao Ze personally served as the guidance of the project team.But he had too much work, gave the data, arranged the research direction, and the craftsmen who worked below.Since most of the old carpenters in the engineering department are illiterate, they often work with a middle-level apprentice.

"Wang Zhen, give me that cursor card ruler."

The fire of the oil lamp is yellow, but it is very bright.Sang had a deep hand to pull up a wooden bead and shouted at the apprentice assistant next to him.The apprentice named Wang Zhen is the afterlife who gave him a lesson a few days ago, and is also the son of a carpenter, who works fast and smart, that is, the lack of experience.

The cursor caliper is handed over, and Sang has a deep skillful card to the wood beads that have just been processed to measure its diameter.Bearings have high requirements for processing accuracy, and machining accuracy depends on measurement accuracy.

Zhao Ze tried to provide a number of new gauges to the engineering department.Such high-end goods as a spiral microcomputer are also more troublesome, but the cursor caliper is even popularized, and the minimum accuracy can reach one millimeter.This is a great progress in ancient times when different carpenters could not be unified to measure.Significantly improve the efficiency of collaboration.

Sand has deep-made bearings with hard lint wood ball, which can be guaranteed to withstand lightweight loads without breaking.It is not difficult to process wood beads on the carpentry lathe, and it is difficult to process a batch of wooden beads to ensure the same tolerance.The number of these batches is not ten hundred, but thousands—for example, the four-wheeled carriages used by the Revolutionary Army for land transport—require a large number of bearings.

Zhao Ze provided the drawings of the bearings and also designed the manufacturing process, which can solve the process problems of mass production, which is a headache for carpenters.They must find a complete set of efficient and fast methods for production, otherwise they will drag their feet.

After the measurement, Sang was very satisfied with the wooden beads at hand, and he could see several other beads on the woodwork table but shook his head.He asked Wang Zhen, an apprentice next to him, "Read me the minister's book again, and I'll listen."

Zhao Ze only has the data of metal bearings on hand, and the production process is not complete.The ball in the metal bearing is a die machine tool to punch the steel embryo into the coat bend, and then with the grinder for grinding.He knew that grinding balls needed a grinder, but how to build a grinder for wood materials is a big problem.

By hand-made wooden balls by carpenter, this yield is too low.Sang now relies on Zhao Ze to provide a piece of words to figure out how to make a hand grinder on the soil.The really industrial grinder can grind hundreds of balls at once, and now Zhao Ze has no requirement, and can grind one at a time.No need to build a few more.

The grinder is essentially a static and moving two high-hardness metal groove plates, and the coarse ball is grinding inside the trench pattern.Just to make the design into a physical object will encounter a lot of problems.Sang has already made a prototype of a hydro grinder, and the balls that can be grounded are always large and small for a while, and they can't figure out what went wrong.

Wang Zhen read some of the information given by Zhao Ze slowly, and in some places he did not understand it himself, and had to check the dictionary at hand.The teacher and the two pondered for a night, feeling that they were afraid that it was the cause of the machine shaking - the hydropower machinery was this problem, and the strength was small for a while.The processing of ordinary items does not see the difference, but it can be different when grinding the ball.

“The flywheel.”Sang had a deep memory of the hydraulic sawmill he had seen a few days ago.With the flywheel, the inert storage device is in, the stability of the entire machine is greatly improved, and the efficiency of sawmills is also improved a lot.“There is also this lubricating fluid that has to be changed, and since the Minister says that the heat during grinding will affect the accuracy, we must bring the temperature down.”

Improving the grinder takes time, whether it is a flywheel or lubricating fluid, Sang has no experience.He could only give some of the wooden balls that had been ground to the other craftsmen in the group.Other craftsmen are responsible for the manufacture of bearings inner and outer rings, the same is the use of hardwood raw materials for processing, the difficulty is not small, at present can only be small by hand to make some fit.

This is the case with technological development, and a little detail will delay the progress of the whole system.Now the industrial system of the "Revolutionary Army" is too crude, not a problem with one detail, but all details are a problem.

The wooden bearings that are made are immediately used to produce other tools and machinery.As more hydraulic machinery is used in the processing plant, apprentices who practice their hands through the manufacture of furniture and kitchenware have begun to manufacture other more complex products.In addition to the four-wheeled carriage urgently needed for road traffic, it is the "Jenny spinning machine".

What was the beginning of the industrial revolution in England?The steam engine?No... the history textbook will clearly say that it is a Jenny spinning machine.

Humans need to eat and wear, cloth in ancient times is directly as a hard currency commodity.The efficiency of spinning fabrics determines the price of the cloth.The earliest Jenny spinning machine increased the spinning efficiency by eight times in one go, and it was not too difficult technically, and it was a huge change in creativity - changing the flat yarn ingot to erect.

The improved use of hydraulic drive in the later period not only improves the quality of the yarn, but also increases the spinning efficiency by a hundred times.The emergence of cheap textiles made a huge fortune for the UK, and greatly promoted the progress of the industrial revolution.A lot of people are beginning to want to break their heads to think of more efficient equipment, and human intelligence is strongly stimulated.

Zhao Ze did not focus on the bearing, because he is engaged in the hydraulic spinning machine this truly revolutionary product.He abandoned the early immature "Jeanne spinning machine" and directly launched the 100-pin hydro-reel spinning machine that was improved in the later period.

Most of the equipment is wooden, with only a small amount of metal.When the equipment was ready to verify the start, Zhou Qingfeng and others all ran to see.

"Jeanne spinning machine is actually to turn an old spindle into an N yarn ingot.However, it has a disadvantage, it can only be woven into fine yarn.So we are currently improving only part of the cotton textile industry chain.Of course, this is a critical bottleneck.”

With Zhao Ze's gesture, the workers opened the flood gate.The river’s hydraulics drive water trucks to power a quirky machinery on the banks of the river.Zhou Qingfeng knew nothing about machinery, and he saw only a hundred spins of spins starting to turn with the operation of several female workers, and the yarn was pulling.

“Even if it succeeded?”Stupidly asked.He had never seen the inefficiency of an old spinning machine, and he could not feel the revolutionary progress of the machine.In any case, these things in front of you are like antiques in the museum.

Zhao Ze was deeply satisfied with the smooth operation of the spinning machine, but he could see that Zhou Qingfeng's stupidity had to wave: "Forget it, I shouldn't have called you to see."I know your boy doesn't understand the beauty of this industrial progress, so go play with your army."

“Don’t talk!I see it with good faith."Zhou Qingfeng turned around the spinning machine for half a turn, and shouted to the next person: "Cai Zhiwei, to draw a picture of Minister Zhao and this spinning machine."Such a great moment must be remembered.”

The royal painter Cai Zhiwei ran out, but expressed extreme surprise at the scene in front of him, "Minister Zhao is really talented, big talent."My mother also used to spin yarn weaving, and the yarn wheel that shook the night was only woven three or four cotton yarns.Day and night tired of back pain, dazzling head.But the machine moved for a day, and it was worth the toil of a spinning woman for three or four months.Awesome, that's great!"

Finally, there was a good idea, and the horses took pictures.

Zhao Ze laughed, and he stood still beside the spinning machine, and hurriedly greeted Cai Zhiwei to paint his own picture.This name is left to the history of the young, Ze was born of the great cause, who can not love?

Unspeakable Zhou Qingfeng also brought a few craftsmen who made spinning machines and asked about the output and details of the machine.It turned out that his decision to start a wood processing plant was the right one.

Not only does it produce a large number of ordinary daily necessities, but it quickly becomes an important equipment production site for the "Revolutionary Army" like a mechanical factory, even more important than a mechanical factory that often lacks raw materials.After all, the wood in Liaodong can be fully supplied.Wood will be an important industrial raw material for the next few hundred years.

Xu Bing was close to Zhou Qingfeng and said in a low voice: "I have just discussed with Zhao Ze that before the steel production capacity can not be improved, it is still necessary to increase the production of wooden machinery."I plan to come to a wave of hard, from the White Lotus where to get the silver from the White Lotus Church to smash it half a million, to recruit more manpower to expand production capacity, and then to establish the entire industrial chain of the entire cotton spinning industry.

The success of the timber processing plant gave the "Revolutionary Army" high-level confidence.Let them realize that industrial development is not just a matter of coal and iron, but also that water and wood play a huge role.

The cotton industry can absorb a large amount of labor.Daming's Shandong, Henan and Jiangnan are all cotton-producing areas, and the supply of raw materials is not a problem.Now an acre of cotton field produces about 60 pounds of cotton, and 20 pounds of lint cotton after rolling.There are still seven or eight processes in the middle of lint cotton to spinning, and after spinning, weaving fabrics can become a commodity that can be listed.

The complex and technical content of this industrial chain is not high, and it can exert a strong production capacity on the peninsula of a large number of women who are not used efficiently.There are enormous benefits to social stability and development.At that time, the depletion of the current hundreds of thousands of people will be like playing, and even make the "Revolutionary Army" feel that the population is not enough.

"Cotton is harvested in autumn, although it is now winter, there are still many cottons waiting for processing in the place of origin."I have sent people to purchase, the main procurement is in Shandong, where the White Lotus system is becoming our vassal.After the cleanup is a very good business network.”Xu Bing said.

Zhou Qingfeng looked back at Zhao Ze, who was "stopping" next to the spinning machine, and smiled cheerfully: "It is really glorious and happy to see this piece beyond the era of the machine appearing in front of you."Fortunately, we can all do this together.Otherwise, I alone can't really do such a big business."