Chapter 301 Chapter 300 Industry 1.0

Next to the port, not far from the lighthouse, Liu Xinyu quietly looked down at the port not far away.

The warship Zhiyuan is ready to sail for the second time; the port is already crowded with people. Many people around came to watch. But more are businessmen from Qixia Country and so on. There are even businessmen from other countries.

Compared to sitting in a small room, Liu Xinyu prefers to stand here, looking at the vast sea and the cheering crowd.

On the boundless sea, in the rolling waves, a small iron boat is preparing to break through the moat that no one has been able to cross for thousands of years, looking for the light of civilization.

The colorful light of the lighthouse shoots straight into the sky. Today's lighthouse is more like a torch of civilization, igniting the light of civilization. From here, the Qixia Kingdom found the light of civilization on the green sea of ​​death.

The brilliance of the rising sun coated the giant steel ship with a layer of brilliance of hope and iron blood. In that unremitting struggle, tempered by blood and fire, Qixia Kingdom broke through the blockade of sea and land and ushered in its own hope.

The waves of the sea are rolling, and thousands of years are like a day; but now on the sea, there is a small black spot, a steel warship.

Facing the entire sea and the entire continent, it is so small. But it is this small ship that carries the hope of a country.

Under the rising sun, Liu Xinyu stared fixedly at the sea and the port. As the first stop to tour the country, Liu Xinyu chose this place without any hesitation.

Turning around to look at the cliff next to it, there is still a row of big characters engraved: The land ends here, and the ocean begins here!

After a while, the battleship started slowly, the people on the battleship waved vigorously to the shore, and the sailors cheered loudly over the waves.

Liu Xinyu stood still, quietly watching the battleship sail into the sea and turn to the south. Finally, the battleship pierced the water surface, causing folds on the sea surface thousands of meters away, and disappeared little by little.

There was a sound of footsteps, and Zhang Hao walked over slowly, standing not far from Liu Xinyu without speaking.

"You didn't follow the boat this time?" Liu Xinyu asked softly without turning her head.

Looking at the traces of shipping that still remained on the sea, Zhang Hao said with a faint smile, "I believe they can do a good job!"

Liu Xinyu nodded slowly, and after a while, Liu Xinyu suddenly asked: "Is there no name for this port?"

"Eh..." Zhang Hao suddenly felt a little embarrassed. That's right, the port hasn't been given a name until now, it really shouldn't be.

Liu Xinyu raised her head slowly, looked at the distance of the sea, looked at the place where the sea and the sky meet, and said slowly: "I heard that in the north, north of the country of Yanyun, there is a desert. The desert is a world of despair; only in the desert Only when you find an oasis in the world can you find hope.

I think the name Oasis is very suitable for this port.

The green sea of ​​death we are facing is not a desert! But now, we have built our own oasis in this blue desert!

Here is where the hope of the entire Fertile Continent lies! "

The sea breeze was blowing slowly, blowing Liu Xinyu's sleeves.

Later, Liu Xinyu suddenly changed the subject, "I heard that there is a master named Chen Yansong who has joined the Dayang Group?"

"Yes." Zhang Hao nodded. In the past few days, Zhang Hao tricked Chen Yansong into joining Dayang Group, and he got 1% of Dayang Group's shares by himself. Zhang Hao took a few shares from each shareholder and pooled them in the hands of Chen Yansong. In this regard, everyone has no opinion, after all, joining a master of the transformation stage.

This time, Chen Yansong also set off with the boat, and the captain Dugu Junjie and Feng Zhiling were also on board. If there is no major event in the future, Zhang Hao should not follow the boat again. Professional things, let professional people do it. Zhang Hao's specialty is to command others.

"What is Dayang Group's cargo this time?"

"Excellent, unsheathed, plain steel long swords 20,000 pieces. 99.7% black iron 300 tons, steel 50 tons. The rest of the shells 1800 tons."

"Cannonballs... well, forget it. What's the matter with the long sword?"

"Here, before I gave each family of the Eastern Merchant Group three long swords made of steel as gifts, which are the kind used by our ordinary soldiers. They said that this is a good thing in the East, and they are willing to give out 1,000 high-grade spirit stones for a piece." Branch. Later, I was embarrassed and dropped to 700 top-grade spirit stones.

However, for those with two hundred top-grade spirit stones, there is no scabbard, and only the blade is made, which improves the efficiency a lot. A sword is about 1.3 kilograms, and 20,000 sword bars are only 26 tons. "

The corner of Liu Xinyu's mouth twitched a bit: "I probably know the cost of steel in your Zhang family. You sell 700 high-grade spirit stones for a sword... You are really open!"

Zhang Hao was not happy: "Your Majesty, what you said... I don't quite agree with it. I have to firmly express my opposition. Your Majesty, what is the price of Dongfang Xuantie? 99.6% Xuantie, berth The price is as high as 75 high-grade spirit stones per catty.

Although the calculation methods of taels of catties are different in the East and the West, the taels of catties in the East seem to be larger, and there are sixteen taels in a catty. But the price of black iron is still very high.

Our steel sword is forged with 99.7% black iron, and in the end it only costs 700 top-grade spirit stones, which is almost the cost price in the eyes of the outside world.

Representatives of Eastern business houses, gladly accept! No objection at all!

Your Majesty, do you know why? "

Liu Xinyu frowned, she faintly felt something, but couldn't say it for a while.

Without waiting for Liu Xinyu to answer, Zhang Hao said, "Your Majesty, this is technology! Your Majesty, you have been in touch with and understand us all the time, so you think our asking price is very expensive.

But if you think from the outside world, Your Majesty, you will find that our prices are really cheap!

The reason for this is because our technology has improved. This is technology!

Technology is the future of Qixia Country.

The new black iron production method is technology. The emergence of steel is technology. That huge formation that seals the sky and locks the earth is technology. Even the battleship Zhiyuan is also a technology!

All of this is technological progress.

Taking steel as an example, why did they readily agree to my asking price of 700 high-grade spirit stones?

This is pricing power!

Once we have mastered the technology, we have the dominance; and this dominance includes pricing power!

Let's talk about battleships, because we have battleships, we have opened up hope, and we have obtained cheap medicines! Your Majesty, do you think it is inconceivable that a 0.6 spirit stone of Peiyuan Pill can be obtained? But that's just what we think. For the East, they may still think it is too expensive! "

"Technology?" Liu Xinyu was thoughtful, but she frowned slightly, feeling that there was still a core that she hadn't grasped. "Technology... What is it to develop?"

"A revolution! A revolution in production methods! I think it should be called a technological revolution, or an industrial revolution! This is a brand-new production method, which uses machines to produce machines!

Your Majesty, let me take you to Zhang's production base. "

This time, Zhang Hao directly brought Liu Xinyu to the core production base of the Zhang family - machine tool production base!

Zhang Hao thought for a long time, and finally led Liu Xinyu to come.

Liu Xinyu is the head of the country, and the future of the country depends entirely on Liu Xinyu. If Zhang Hao wants the Qixia Kingdom to develop at a really high speed, he needs to ensure that Liu Xinyu's thinking is sufficiently advanced.

Therefore, Zhang Hao took Liu Xinyu into the core of the Zhang family today. Here, it has never been open to the outside world!

This is a world where machines produce machines!

Liu Xinyu asked the guards to stay outside the barrier, and walked in alone. Afterwards, she was stunned. What was unfolded in front of Liu Xinyu was a world of steel and machines.

Liu Xinyu glanced around, but didn't know where to start.

Zhang Hao first led Liu Xinyu to observe the production of steam turbine blades. Steam turbine blades are one of the most important technologies now.

Now more than 50 steam turbines of the Zhang family have been sold, and the Royal Trading Company has also bought a lot. Liu Xinyu is well aware of the status and value of steam turbine blades, as well as the technical difficulty.

Many people tried to copy Zhang's steam turbine, but they all failed. Failed on... blades!

At this time, Liu Xinyu saw how the leaves were produced.

First, the high-purity iron block that has been repeatedly folded and forged enters the stamping machine in a red-hot state to press out the basic shape. After complex quenching, annealing, and cooling, it is put into a somewhat complicated machine tool by the craftsman.

This machine tool has a horizontal axis, a vertical axis, and even a helical axis; the cutter advances along the helical axis, just across a perfect curve, and pulls out the hair-thin iron filings from the embryo of the blade just now.

The machine tool kept moving, but within three minutes, the surface of the blade had been processed. Then enter the next process.

After the craftsmen inspected the blades to be qualified, they began to drill holes at the root of the blades, mill grooves, etc., and finally polished the whole. The whole process is done by machine tools.

A blade that seems too complicated for others to replicate can be processed here in just a few minutes.

Then Zhang Hao took Liu Xinyu to watch the production of the main shaft of the steam turbine rotor.

The main shaft adopts a new pouring technology. Molten steel will be poured into a container reinforced with layers of seals, first stirred to make sure there are no air bubbles, etc., then sealed and pressurized, with a heavy hammer on top to apply pressure; when the molten steel begins to semi-solidify, forging and pressurization will begin.

It usually takes several days for a steel column to cool down, but Zhang Hao brought Liu Xinyu to a formed steel column. The steel columns are more than 70 centimeters thick and about four meters long. At this time, the steel column is still a little red hot, but it has been hoisted by driving and heat treatment has begun.

In the next process, a steel column has been placed on a large machine tool and is being processed.

The machine tool rotated rapidly, iron filings curled and flew out, and the steel column was cut to a precise size, exactly seventy centimeters in diameter.

Then the machine tool changed the cutters, and nine cutters cut down at the same time, starting to cut grooves one after another. The groove gradually widened, and the cut steel wires curled and fell to the ground, and some of the thin wires could even extend more than ten meters, like a thread.

Soon, nine raised 'steel ridges' with a height of ten centimeters appeared on the main shaft. Then the tool traverses to cut these steel ridges evenly, and slot and punch holes on them. Final overall polishing.

When I came to the next process, I saw that the excellent craftsmen aligned the grooves at the root of the blades with the grooves of the main shaft, tapped and aligned them with a soft copper hammer, and finally fixed them with screws. The blades are installed one by one, and a complete steam turbine rotor has appeared.

Then come to the next process, the formed rotor is rotating at a low speed, and the craftsmen are checking the balance. This check is careful, and the balance is slightly adjusted by adding paper-like shims to the bolts that hold the blades in place.

The last inspected rotor spins rapidly on the bearings. The 12-ton heavy rotor rotates at more than 1,000 revolutions per minute—this is the most extreme test so far; and during this process, the rotor does not make any noise!

Liu Xinyu couldn't help but touch the optical axis of the rotor lightly with her hand, only feeling a little smooth, and could barely feel a faint trembling.

Liu Xinyu watched intently; but Zhang Hao did not stop in his footsteps. He took Liu Xinyu to visit the more core production process - machine tool production machine tool!

The core of the machine to produce the machine is the machine tool to produce the machine tool. A set of machine tools with complete functions and self-replication ability has a very vivid name-industrial master machine!

And here, this base is the Zhang family's industrial mother machine! The full set of machine tools here constitute three sets of industrial master machines, which are in rapid production.

Zhang Hao took Liu Xinyu to observe one by one. Here, Liu Xinyu saw the production of bearings, the production of screws, the production of molds, and the production of gears...seeing these small parts assembled into a complete and complex machine tool bit by bit!

Cold iron ingots, black iron ingots, steel ingots, etc. are processed into roaring machines here!

As night fell, the production base was brightly lit. Standing on a high place, Liu Xinyu watched the machine tool production workshop silently, repeatedly and over and over again watching the machine tool process pieces of steel billets into different parts, and then watched these parts recombine into the machine tool.

Then these machine tools will be sent to some core departments of the Zhang family and Dayang Group, and will not be displayed to the public.

Previously, the Zhang family had strictly guarded against these things, and it still does now; but after Zhang Hao thought it over, he decided to bring Liu Xinyu to have a look.

Taking a glance will not take away much technology, but it can let Liu Xinyu understand the future of industry and commerce—what is real industry and commerce!

This country needs a monarch with a pioneering spirit, a monarch who has a deep understanding of industrial power and future.

Zhang Hao wants Liu Xinyu to understand: Industry and commerce, industry comes first, and commerce comes second. The foundation of industry and commerce is industry and technology. Not those caravans that buy low and sell high!

It was not until the dawn of the next day that Liu Xinyu sighed: "This... is the so-called industrial revolution?"

"I prefer to call it: Industrial Revolution 1.0, or the first industrial revolution. There will be a second, third, and even more in the future.

And the technology here, I am going to... Gradually make it public in the country! "

Liu Xinyu frowned: "Why? Isn't it good to keep it for yourself? Why do you want to make it public?"

(Third watch, asking for tickets in the middle of the night. Before I knew it, there were three hundred chapters.)