Chapter 12 Hydraulics, Standards
Cheng Pan and two blacksmiths came to a building near the river water not far from the blast furnace. Although the two old men started building the blast furnace under Cheng Pan's command, this was the carpenter's territory. The two blacksmiths often looked at it curiously and were busy with their own work. In this month, the building became more and more magnificent, and more and more wood entered the building. The original water wheel on the river surface turned into five water wheels. There was a trend of continued increase.
Cheng Pan and others walked into the building and heard a strange sound of grinding teeth. Two blacksmiths looked at the sound and saw a rapidly rotating circular blade with serrated teeth cutting wood at high speed. After a while, the wood was cut and polished by a rapidly rotating grinding wheel. There were only two people operating here, and the two blacksmiths could not find the person who rotated the blade and grinding wheel. Five people next to them used charcoal pens to write some strange symbols on the ground and argued about something. These people stood up and greeted him when they saw Cheng Pan coming.
Among them, Li He, the head of the carpenter group, said, "Teacher, you are here, the machinery is running well now, and we are discussing the physical formula you teach us."
Cheng Pan said: "You have used these formulas."
Li He said happily: "These formulas are so useful. Some old carpenters sighed after reading them. Based on these formulas, we thoroughly understand these levers and pulley torques that seemed complicated before."
"Okay, I understand." Cheng Pan interrupted Li He's hand and danced, and continued, "Is there any mechanical deficiencies?"
Li He changed into a serious expression and said, "Some wooden parts are worn too quickly. I heard that the first furnace of iron has been refined. Should the iron-packed parts you mentioned should be implemented?"
Cheng Pan said: "Yes, iron has been released. The iron-blocked wood parts are ready to be made soon. Is Unit 5 ready? I have already brought the people from the Blacksmith Group."
At this time, the blacksmith Zeng said, "Xiao Li, the power of a water wheel is used here."
Li He replied, "Yes, Master Zeng, this is water power. Now, the new automatic iron machine has been adjusted on No. 5 and can be used to work as long as it is equipped with a hammer. I'll take you there sir."
Cheng Pan and his party came to the No. 5 water turbine room. Room 5 is made of two tall stone platforms by the river. No matter how the river water rises, it cannot threaten the computer room near the stone platform on the shore. There is a large water wheel in the middle of the two stone platforms, which keeps rotating under the erosion of the river water. There is a furnace for ironwork in the computer room, and next to it is a mechanically driven ironwork.
After a while, Cheng Pan walked out of Room 5 and left Li He and two senior blacksmiths to discuss the debugging of the latest blacksmith workshop.
Since the Iron Smelting Group was put into production for 1.5 tons of steel a day, Cheng Pan's subordinates finally got rid of the situation of poor iron. The utilization of hydraulic power has also brought the productivity of Cheng Pan's new small Huang Village to a new level. Cheng Pan has always yearned for the scene of large-scale industrial production. Ancient China's technology has always been at the forefront and has sufficient manpower. China has relied on the abundant population of every dynasty to exert other civilizations in the world in terms of output. Logically speaking, the accumulation of technology, manpower and primitive capital has not yet occurred. Putting aside other reasons, Cheng Pan personally believes that
The country lacked a concept of standardization. During the Qin Dynasty, China had standardized once. All similar weapons parts were unified in specifications. Several broken weapons could be dismantled from them and reassembled into a new weapon. Although it was impossible to understand the production situation of various countries during the Warring States Period, the two western provinces of Qin repeatedly suppressed the territorial population east of Huashan, which was several times more than the population of the six countries. This was definitely not just the problem of Qin's military system, but the productivity of Qin's country definitely exceeded that of the six eastern countries at that time. The first thing after Qin was to unify weights and measures.
After Qin's destruction, those who could write words blindly described Qin's strict laws and regulations, attributed Qin's strength to the Qin King's instilling robbery ideas into the people, described Qin as a country of tigers and wolves, and demonized everything of Qin. He deliberately or unintentionally for the superiority of Qin's production system. Although the unified weights and measures have been passed down, they did not develop to a deeper precision. The literati's description of manufacturing also tended to praise a certain craftsman, praised his profound skills, but did not care about the production method that created a large number of qualified products. With the depravity of the Confucian class who mastered the right to disseminate text information, he used strange techniques to discredit the exquisite production technology.
Now, after Cheng Pan popularized his ability to disseminate information to his subordinates in pinyin and simplified Chinese, he began to refine the weights and measures further.
The same rice ruler was hung in the carpenter's workshop and the blacksmith workshop, and each rice ruler was refined to millimeters. The production of rice ruler was uniformly produced based on a silver rice ruler in the village as a model.
At the same time, the products produced in each workshop are marked with various sizes. Once the products produced do not meet the error standards, they are all classified as defective products. Once the defective products are destroyed and produced exceed the specified amount, the wages of the producers and workshop managers will be reduced. Although most workers complain about them, they continued to implement them under Cheng Pan's strong will. Li He and Zeng Cai and other manufacturing senior management agreed with this system with both hands and feet. After understanding the movement principles of large machinery such as water trucks and enjoying the convenience of machinery, they conducted more in-depth research on the machinery and deeply understood the essence of the slightest mistake that the ancients said was a thousand miles away. They strongly promoted the standardization of products. With the efforts of several craftsmen and the conceptual guidance of Cheng Pan, the vernier caliper, the accuracy measuring device, was born.
As other parts such as iron gears and other parts were processed within one millimeter of precision, the frequency of failure of large water trucks dropped sharply. After exchanged for enough iron ore, Cheng Pan felt that the steel output of a blast furnace was not enough and decided to build another one. After a month of successful operation of the first blast furnace, the construction speed of the second blast furnace was far higher than that of the first blast furnace. Compared with the first blast furnace, Cheng Pan adopted a new technology, which was to re-drink gas from the top of the furnace with a blower drum.
Into the furnace, it was recycled. At the same time, it was used to easily test the ore ratio in the iron ore with strong acid. The iron plant used the test data to calculate how much iron can be produced by a certain amount of iron ore by ratio through a formula. It strictly required that the fire should be turned off and cleaned the slag after the production of steel. In the past, these tasks required experienced old blacksmiths to grasp, but Cheng Pan used a super-sense cheating. Now, they operated according to the formula. Everyone strictly followed the formula explained by Cheng Pan. However, they became extremely curious about this formula.
Chapter completed!