Start Being a Vassal King Today - Chapter 1004

[Chapter 1004 Comprehensive Development]

“Are these all sent to Jinghai Shipyard?”

Zhao Xu asked when a donkey cart full of gas cylinders passed by.

After the technology of oxyhydrogen welding appeared, there was a great demand for it in various workshops.

In the past, riveting was troublesome, the process took a long time, and the airtightness was poor, but oxyhydrogen welding solved these disadvantages.

At the moment, apart from various machinery workshops, shipbuilding workshops naturally have the greatest demand for hydrogen-oxygen welding.

Let hydrogen-oxygen welding replace the riveting of the battleship’s iron armor, and the construction speed of the iron-clad ship will be greatly advanced.

“Returning to Your Highness, that’s right.” The owner of the iron and steel workshop said with a smile, “Besides, there are steam engine workshops, agricultural machinery workshops, etc. They also trained some gas welding craftsmen.”

Zhao Xu nodded slightly.

When Da Song leaped into the electric power industry, he didn’t just abolish the steam industry directly.

Instead, let the steam industry and the electric power industry have me in you, and you in me.

It will not be too late to gradually abandon the backward steam industry after the power industry is fully developed in Dasong.

The scale of the Dasong industry is not large, and cutting off the steam industry established in the past few years is tantamount to cutting off an arm.

After leaving the electrolysis workshop, Zhao Xu went to other workshops accompanied by everyone, and personally inspected the preparation of steel plates, steel bars, steel wires and special steel materials.

Generally speaking, Dasong’s steel industry has basically reached the level of the middle and late nineteenth century.

“As the first iron and steel workshop in Yancheng, although the progress you have made is obvious to all, you should not be complacent. You must continue to conquer more complex steel manufacturing technologies.” Toured around.

Zhao Xu left the Iron and Steel Workshop, and when he was at the door, he turned and said to the owner of the Iron and Steel Workshop.

For iron and steel smelting, Iron and Steel Workshop now has its own R&D team, and no longer just counts on the R&D Institute.

After all, the advent of the power industry era means a technological explosion.

Research institutes can only solve key technologies.

Instead of trying to get involved in everything like a housekeeper.

Therefore, drawing on contemporary experience, he asked the workshop to establish its own research room in-house.

One of the researchers in the laboratory is a skilled craftsman from the workshop, and the other is from Yanzhou University.

The Research Institute provides them with technical parameters and drawings, and they are responsible for the research.

In order to promote self-research within the workshop, he also asked the workshop to establish an internal night school to teach craftsmen basic knowledge such as reading, literacy, mathematics, physics and chemistry.

“Yes, Your Highness, we will definitely not lose the name of Yancheng Iron and Steel Works.” The head of the Iron and Steel Works said.

The iron and steel workshops in Shanggu County and Liao County went into production, forming internal competition with them.

The Department of Industry often summons these principals to assess their performance.

In this regard, their principals are also full of energy, fighting for who will develop better.

After giving some instructions to the owner of the Iron and Steel Workshop, Zhao Xu and the officials from the Industry Department went to the opposite copper workshop.

This new workshop area in the west of Yancheng is heavy industry.

In addition to steel, there are workshops for copper, tin, lead, and aluminum.

In the copper workshop, Zhao Xu inspected the production of copper wire, copper sheets, copper sleeves and other parts, and then went to the aluminum, tin, and lead workshops to observe and observe. Before noon, he went to the rare metal smelting workshop to visit The extraction of tungsten, manganese, lithium, etc.

The rapid development of metal-related industries made Zhao Xu feel comfortable.

The metal industry is clearly one of the most important technologies for military technology.

After staying in the west of the city for a whole morning, Zhao Xu went to the chemical workshop area in the north of the city in the afternoon.

After the birth of electricity, chemical technology can usher in a period of great explosion.

Qu Sheng and his students synthesized many compounds that could not be produced before in a short period of time.

Now, he is cooperating with the Department of Industry to prepare for the industrial production of these compounds.

Such as ammonia.

A large number of industrial production methods of ammonia are synthesized by using hydrogen and nitrogen at high temperature and high pressure.

Naturally, this was not possible due to the previous inability to produce pure hydrogen.

With electricity, the industrial production of ammonia became possible.

Ammonia gas has a wide range of applications and can give birth to more chemical industries.

For example, saltpeter was used in the production of nitric acid in the past, but now it can be produced directly through ammonia gas, the cost has come down, and the scale has increased.

After being able to industrially prepare ammonia, the Hou’s alkali-making method invented by the Chinese was also realized in the early 20th century.

Ammonia and salt plus carbon dioxide can produce soda ash, no need to use soda ore to obtain soda ash.

At the same time, ammonium chloride, a by-product of soda ash, is also a material for chemical fertilizers.

This is tantamount to establishing the chemical fertilizer industry by the way.

It can be said that as long as there is a breakthrough in the chemical industry, a series of related chemicals can be broken through.

In the chemical workshop area, Zhao Xu inspected these workshops under construction, and inspected various rubber products in the rubber workshop.

He was busy until evening before returning to the palace.

The next day, he went to the light industry workshop area in Dongcheng.

Light industries are naturally textiles and food.

After electrifying and replacing the steam engine in the workshop with an electric motor, Zhao Xu’s most intuitive feeling is that the output of the textile industry has been greatly improved.

As for the steam engine equipment used in the textile workshop, they were sold to private merchants, and the backward production capacity is also the production capacity.

Dasong is too big, and the development cannot be fully rolled out at once. We can only choose areas with convenient transportation to focus on development first.

Therefore, these obsolete steam engines can be transferred to the inland areas further west.

In the light industry workshop area, Zhao Xu inspected the traditional weaving workshops and spinning workshops, and then went to the emerging clothing trade factories, such as hat workshops, shoemaking workshops, and clothing workshops.

With the cooperation of the research institute and the machine workshop, the pedal sewing machine was developed last year.

This kind of machinery, which was born in Zhongye in the 19th century, has an uncomplicated structure, and it can be manufactured at the industrial level of Yancheng.

After that, he came to the two key workshops of this inspection.

One is a canning workshop and the other is a battery workshop.

Canned food is related to military supplies. Fried noodles are convenient to carry, but they lack nutrition.

If conditions permit, the soldiers will naturally not be allowed to just eat fried noodles.

Fighting a war is a time-consuming and labor-intensive job, and the soldiers should be given better food.

“Your Highness, we are adjusting the equipment, and it will be officially put into production in half a month.” When we came to the canning workshop, the head in charge of the canning workshop greeted us.

The canning workshop consists of two workshop areas, half of which are used to make cans.

That is to use the thin steel plate provided by the iron and steel workshop to tin-plate, and then use the stamping equipment to directly shape the steel plate.

Due to the high flexibility of the steel plate, just put the steel plate on the mold and press it down with the cylindrical knife of the punching machine, and the can box is born.

As for the food, it only needs to be cooked and then heated and sterilized, and the canned food is sealed while it is hot, and a canned food will appear.

(end of this chapter)