Chapter 229: The Sprouting of Tang Dynasty Industry in the Western Regions

Although Chen Ying made sufficient preparations, he modified all the four-wheeled carriages and sleds that he accompanied, covering the walls with cowhides, and burning a stove inside. Although the cold wind was howling outside, the carriage was still as warm as spring.

However, the bumps along the way cannot be reduced much. Even with spring steel as a shock absorption device, the shock absorption effect of this sled is even worse than that of later pickup trucks.

Although Li Xiuning was pregnant, she was in good spirits. She ignored the cold wind and opened the car window from time to time and looked at the ice and snow world outside. Just as she entered Huyang County, Li Xiuning found a very large building complex in the distance, with thick smoke rolling. She said in surprise: "Chen Lang, do you see that there is no water in front of you?"

Chen Ying was also shocked when he heard this.

The weather in winter is dry and can easily cause fires, especially during this season. Once a fire occurs, not to mention being burned or burned to death, even if people run out, it may not be possible to last for a long time.

Chen Ying hurriedly opened the car window and looked at the thick smoke in the distance. However, because of the posture of being as thick as a bucket, like a roaring black dragon, which soared up to 90,000 miles, Chen Ying was no longer familiar with it. This chimney was unique to the smelting factory in later generations.

Chen Ying smiled and explained: "It's not like a water walk in front, it should be a big workshop. Why do you want to go over and take a look!"

At this moment, the commander of the guard Zhou Qing came to report: "The Great Protector, the magistrate of Huyang County and the county magistrate led the officials of Huyang County to welcome the Great Protector!"

Chen Ying leaned out and looked at dozens or hundreds of people standing in the snow not far away, trembling with cold. Chen Ying frowned. He didn't like this so-called cross-talk welcome, so he waved his hand and said, "Let Zhao Boying dismiss everyone and let him come by himself!"

Li Xiuning pointed to the factory in the distance and said, "Chen Lang, let's go there and take a look!"

Chen Ying nodded and said, "Okay, let the magistrate of Huyang County take us there!"

Upon hearing that Chen Ying was going to visit the workshop in Huyang County, Zhao Boying quickly whispered in front of his son, asking him to take a quick step forward and go to the workshop to prepare.

Zhao Boying boarded Chen Ying's carriage. Chen Ying asked, "What workshop is ahead?"

"Reporting to the Great Protector, it is a farm tool production workshop!" Zhao Boying said with a proud look: "This workshop has six workshops, which produce hoes, curved plows, trolleys, sickles, keels, water wheels (an irrigation tool invented in the Han Dynasty), and a Kong Ming car (an transport tool invented in the Three Kingdoms period)!"

Chen Ying nodded and said, "Take us to have a look!"

When he came to this huge workshop in Huyang County, even though Chen Ying was knowledgeable, he did not expect that Zhao Boying would actually create such a workshop.

In the huge workshop, the alloy steel mixed slowly flowed into the abrasive tools along the chute. The abrasive tools filled with alloy steel were pulled by several oxen and slowly moved along the track. The skilled craftsman, wearing thick cotton gloves, held huge steel pliers, clamped up an orange-red coulter, walked to a giant stamper, put the coulter down in the clamp, and as the clamp was fixed, the craftsman stepped on the foot, and the tensile mold driven by the ox fell down with a strong impact force. With a bang, the flat coulter was pressed into an arc-shaped cone.

Zhao Boying explained to Chen Ying: "Although the curved plow that the Great Protector has tried to make is easy to use, it is too complicated to make and it is not easy to build. It takes almost three days for a skilled craftsman to build a porch. Now that this mechanism is used, half a stick of incense can create a porch..."

Of course, this processing method is quite primitive, the machine is backward, and the production capacity is not high. There are so many machines that can only process more than a thousand workpieces a day if you last for so many machines. However, in this era, such efficiency has become very scary. Chen Ying pointed to the animal press curiously and said, "Where did you get this thing?"

Zhao Boying smiled awkwardly: "Does the Protector remember the last time I took the copper to Shule? When I sent the copper to Shule's coin bureau for them to hand over, one of my nephews Zhao Zimao accidentally saw the minting..."

Chen Ying secretly stumbled, Zhao Zimao was really a talent. Hydraulic stamping machine and animal press are two completely different concepts. It is like seeing a musket and developing a cannon.

What Chen Ying didn't know was that Zhao Boying gave Chen Ying too many surprises.

Then, Chen Ying followed Zhao Boying into another huge factory, which was used to produce keel water trucks. The keel water trucks began around the Eastern Han Dynasty and were improved by the inventor Ma Jun during the Three Kingdoms. Since then, they have played a huge role in agriculture.

However, since the keel waterwheel is made of wood, its rotation efficiency and wear resistance are much worse. At this time, the keel waterwheel built in this workshop actually looks like motorcycle chains from later generations, but they are larger and all of them are similar castings. After assembly, they form the so-called keel. At this time, the keel waterwheel was too much steel and fewer trees in the Western Regions. Chen Ying strictly prohibited the people from publishing trees, so they adopted keel waterwheel made of steel.

The concept of chains in later generations was really surprising to Chen Ying. What surprised Chen Ying the most was the operation of producing seamless steel pipes, which was also poured in the same way. These craftsmen actually dug out a deep well of more than three meters deep underground, manually place the abrasive tools of the steel pipes, and then pour the molten steel directly into the abrasive tools. Because the climate in the Western Regions was dry, there was no so-called bubble problem.

These cast seamless steel pipes were taken to a boring tool, and as the horse ran hard, it made a harsh sound and sparks splashed... The steel pipes were made of low-carbon steel and were easier to cut, but although they were low-carbon steel, they were much cheaper than bronze.

Finally, after Zhao Boying's explanation, Chen Ying realized that these seamless steel pipes were actually used to make water pipes. The Western Regions lacked water resources and there was no bamboo that could be used here, but the steel resources were relatively abundant, so people began to use steel pipes as water diversion pipelines.

A seamless steel piece of steel is three and six feet long, and the lathe cutter starts cutting out the external screw opening on the steel pipe. Then cut out the internal screw on the shaft sleeve...

Chen Ying looked at Zhao Boying and said, "How did you come up with creating such a thing?"

In fact, this is definitely beyond Chen Ying's surprise. Both stamping machines and machine tools are very primitive and have low efficiency. However, it is undeniable that this has opened the germination of industrial genus in the Tang Dynasty.

Zhao Boying smiled bitterly and said, "This is not a mess with few people. There are many lands in Populus County and few people, so I can't plant them at all. The old man... I saw that the good land was wasted, and I was anxious. It turned out that the plows were once per day, but I couldn't beat them a few times a year. I heard that the organs could save effort, so the officials took people to build these organs. Now this Qujiang plow can make 300,000 sets a year, which is more than enough to supply the entire Western Regions. There are also keel bone water trucks, each set a day. At most, all the fields in Populus County can be used for water bone dragon trucks. There is no need to look at God's eyes anymore!"

Chen Ying sighed very much that the people of China are hardworking and intelligent. Chen Ying just opened up a new idea for them, so they ran farther and faster on a brand new road.

Now, there are six small-scale workshops in the only county of Poplar. In later generations, they can only be considered as family workshops. However, in this era, it is already very scary.

It produces 300,000 sets of curved plows, 200,000 sets of carts, and millions of sickles. You should know that sickles can not only harvest crops, but also mow grass.

At this moment, a crisp sound of "clang" was heard, and the lathe stopped abruptly.

The responsible craftsman Zhao Zimao patted his thigh and sighed: "Oh... it's broken again!"

Chen Ying went up to take a look. Because the lathe was still rough and the quality problems of the high-manganese steel alloy knife, the tool finally broke.

Chen Ying looked at the knife that fell off and said, "It seems that Gao Mengsteel knives are still not up to date. Unless they can get tungsten steel, there will be no chance."

Zhao Zimao became interested and looked at Chen Ying and asked, "Tungsten steel? What is tungsten steel?"

"Tungsten is a metal with extremely high hardness. The tool made of alloy steel is extremely sharp and resistant to high temperature and wear. It is one of the most ideal tools." Chen Ying smiled bitterly: "Don't look at me, I don't have the ability to make it out!"

Don’t say that when he mentioned tungsten steel, Zhao Zimao looked at him in a daze, looking like he wanted to eat people, which made Chen Ying’s scalp numb… Nowadays, there is no electricity, so where can he get tungsten steel? Even if he gets tungsten steel, it cannot be processed.

There is no way, let’s see what will happen in the future, sooner or later.

Chen Ying was holding a seamless steel pipe. Although this steel pipe was cast from low carbon steel, the thickness of the pipe walls also differed. If the diameter of this seamless steel pipe was reduced and the rifle was carved inside, could it be possible to build a musket?

Thinking of this, Chen Ying shook his head.

The firearm is the devil in Pandora's box. Chen Ying didn't think about whether to release this devil.

Until he left Huyang County, Chen Ying did not make up his mind.

However, Huyang County opened his eyes to Chen Ying, and then Chen Ying asked Guo Luo to investigate the industrial development of the prefectures and counties. These data were actually in the hands of the Tiger Yi. After receiving Guo Luo's intelligence summary, Chen Ying was stunned again.

Today, in the Western Regions, there are more than 400 steel workshops of all sizes. However, except for the Huaergou steel workshop under Chen Ying's rule and a few large steel mills used to make armor and tracks, other private steel workshops cannot make weapons. However, more than 400 steel workshops still scared Chen Ying.

Unless there are steel, there are five or six hundred coal mines, but most of them are small coal mines with an annual output of less than 100,000 stones to be used for the lives of the surrounding people.
Chapter completed!