Start Being a Vassal King Today - Chapter 642

[Chapter 642 Rubber Outlook]

“If a worker wants to do a good job, he must first sharpen his tools. This lathe is a tool. There are all types of lathes, and it is easy to manufacture all kinds of machinery.”

Zhao Xu nodded with satisfaction.

All the lathes he gave to Wang Chong were mature lathes before the mid-nineteenth century.

For example, the contemporary horizontal milling machine that appeared in 1817.

Compared with the turret lathe that drills the workpiece, the horizontal milling machine can cut on the surface of the workpiece, engrave it like a carving knife, and can be used to manufacture gears, thread grooves and other accessories that require grooves.

There is also the gantry planer that appeared in 1837. As the name suggests, the planer is just like a carpenter’s plane to plan out planes and slopes for wood.

A planer is a lathe that planes out a smooth surface for metal, and can also be used to make flat grooves such as T-slots.

In addition, there is a hexagonal turret lathe that appeared in 1845.

This kind of lathe is like a hat fixed on the bench. Different tools can be assembled on the hexagon of the hat, and parts such as nuts, sleeves, and rotating shafts can be manufactured.

As for the three pieces of boring machine, drilling machine, grinding machine, and forging machine, the corresponding technology in Yanzhou has long been mature.

However, he still asked Wang Chong to improve it to make it more suitable for steam power.

So far, Yanzhou basically has all the types of lathes in the steam era.

Further development, the requirement for lathes is to improve the accuracy, but this requires more stable power, such as electricity.

In general, steam engines are relatively prone to unstable speed.

Then, his eyes rested on the belt connecting the two wheels, and he frowned.

The steam engine drives the lathe to rotate, and it must link its own runner with the runner of the lathe.

Therefore, a strong belt must be pulled between the runners.

In the current Western soil, the belt is made of rubber.

Since Yanzhou did not have this kind of raw material, Zhao Xu could only ask Wang Chong and the others to use cowhide instead.

After all, cowhide is very wear-resistant and strong enough. Multi-layer cowhide stitching can completely replace rubber belts,

but this has caused the price of cowhide in Yanzhou to skyrocket.

“Rubber.” Zhao Xu spit out two words lightly, this is a problem that must be solved.

The rubber plantations in South America are controlled by the Western Turk countries, and the relationship between the two parties is stable. He can also obtain rubber through trade.

But if the relationship between the two sides deteriorates, I am afraid that the only way to get rubber resources is through war.

Of course, according to the data in his mind, there is a plant called rubber grass in the Western Regions, which can also be used to refine rubber, but it is currently controlled by Beidi, and he will not be able to get it in the short term.

It was because of these considerations that he asked Zhou Yi to rescue Fei Wen.

Because Franz is one of the most important colonists in this world, South America.

Maintaining the current relationship with Franz will help him obtain rubber tree seeds from South America.

Moreover, there is another very important point. After the contemporary eighteenth century, Franchi did not participate in the invasion of the Qing Dynasty.

Because Franz during this period was also encountering the aggression of the emerging power, the United States.

The United States successively seized the Philippines and many South American colonies from Franz.

It can be described as very miserable.

This situation seems to be repeating itself again in this world.

According to Fei Wen’s explanation of the current international situation under the last question of the questionnaire.

One year ago, the Kingdom of Sam issued the Kane Declaration, opposing other Western countries to seize colonies in America.

In fact, they just want to turn America into their own back garden and take it as their own.

This is aimed at the Franc machine.

Although Sam’s country is currently not ranked among the Western countries, it is indeed more than enough to suppress the declining Franz.

In the future, the relationship between Franji and the country of Sam will become worse and worse.

In addition to the country of Sam, Britain, Frank and other countries are also squeezing the living space of the country of Francine.

Two hundred years ago, the country of Francine annexed the country of Portugal.

But decades ago, they supported Portugal’s war of independence from Franjima.

And this prompted Franz to join the Holy Alliance established by Ross.

It can be seen that it has basically become a doormat for Western soil.

Of course, Zhao Xu didn’t sympathize with Franjiguo at all.

Because before Britain became the overlord of the sea, Franji was the overlord of the ocean, and it was because of this that he was able to obtain so many colonies in South America and the East.

The conflict between them is nothing more than the rising young male lion challenging the aging old lion king.

Furthermore, Franji was a colonist both in the New World of South America and in the East.

He also committed numerous crimes.

He seeks to establish contacts with Franji based on interest considerations, in order to achieve his own rubber strategy.

After thinking about the issue of rubber for a while, Zhao Xu said to Wang Chong, “Besides the conveyor belt, the only remaining problem is the knives, right?”

Wang Chong nodded, “If you can use tungsten steel alloy knives instead of high-carbon With steel knives, the efficiency of the lathe will be greatly improved.” “I will

go to Qu Sheng’s right now, and give you a reminder.” Zhao Xu patted Wang Chong’s shoulder again after hearing this.

After leaving the steam engine workshop, under Xu Lie’s guard, he went straight to the Science and Technology School.

After finding Qu Sheng, he directly asked about smelting tungsten ore.

“It’s a coincidence that your Highness came down. I’m going to report this matter to His Highness.” Qu Sheng said with a smile.

Then, he led Zhao Xu to a laboratory, pointed to a glass bottle, and said, “Your Highness, this is the tungsten powder that was just smelted.”

Zhao Xu looked at the black powder-like thing in the glass bottle, and couldn’t help feeling excited.

Qu Sheng continued to explain next to him, “I extracted the tungsten powder by mixing and heating carbon powder and tungsten ore powder.

” Smelting tungsten powder.”

During this period of time, he has been busy with yellow gunpowder, and the tungsten powder business has just started in the past two days.

Zhao Xu nodded, agreeing.

After humans discovered tungsten ore, the most primitive way to extract tungsten is to directly reduce it with carbon powder.

Although this will cause a waste of tungsten ore, it is the cheapest and easiest method to implement.

In the future, as technology advances, it can be improved slowly.

After confirming the matter of tungsten powder smelting, Zhao Xu told Qu Sheng that after mass production of tungsten powder, it would be directly handed over to the iron and steel workshop to produce tungsten steel.

Immediately, he returned to the palace, called Liu Fu over, and told him about popularizing education.

“The imperial court wants to set up a special institution to be responsible for the education in Yanzhou. This institution is called the Education Department. After the Education Department is established, it must immediately solve the education problems in Yanzhou from three aspects.

” First, the villages that are farther away from the county are smaller in scale, but they must also have public schools to provide schools for rural children.”

“Second, establish a teacher’s school to train teachers for public schools. ”

“Thirdly, there are seven levels within the public office, and free education in the public office will be implemented.”

“Free!”

Originally, Liu Fu still had a smile on his face because of the popularization of education.

Hearing this, he was startled.

(end of this chapter)