Steel Dynasty - Chapter 850

[Chapter 848 Sublimation of Industry]

When the white fish belly appeared in the east, the Suwon Bridge Camp sounded the wake-up call.

In the ten-mile-long camp, soldiers from Dayu and Goryeo all got up and began to cook in pots. The smoke from cooking stoves rose into the sky, growing longer and longer in the dim light of heaven and earth.

In such a quiet and beautiful scene, Ye Qingyun and Qu Dong came out of the camp almost at the same time.

In the camp, the bugle is the military order, and both generals and soldiers must obey it. This is the iron-clad discipline of the Chongqing army, and no one can specialize it.

In Suwon Castle, Edo Yiming stayed up all night. With red and swollen eyes, he looked at the dense smoke in the distance. It won’t be long before the mixed army of Chongqing and Goryeo will arrive at the foot of Suwon Castle.

Here, they will have a formal confrontation with the army of Great Chongqing.

Junichi Koizumi is also on the city wall. Behind him are the Goryeo people tied up with ropes. After the war begins, these people will be pushed down in front to resist the bullets of the Yu soldiers.

At the same time, the Japanese soldiers in the city were wiping their muskets. Most of them were holding matchlocks, and a few were holding flintlock muskets.

Compared with the simple structure of the matchlock gun, the manufacturing process of the flintlock gun is more complicated, and only 8,000 flintlock guns have been produced so far.

Five thousand of these flintlock muskets were equipped to Edo Ichimei’s army to show how much Yamada Daimyo valued him.

Because of this, Edo Yiming did not dare to imagine the consequences of failure, because the failure of the war would bring great pressure to Yamada Daimyo.

Other daimyo only took this opportunity to oppose him.

As the sun gradually rose, the atmosphere of war became more intense. The Japanese soldiers lit torches and stood in front of the artillery, ready to fight at any time.

The five thousand elite flintlock soldiers were placed on the east wall by Edo Yiming. Directly opposite there was an empty rice field. He believed that the Dayu Congress would launch an attack here.

Time passed little by little, and soon the Japanese soldiers on the city wall saw the Korean army walking towards them.

These soldiers did not rush to attack the city, but walked around the city in an orderly manner and surrounded Suwon Castle.

This scene made Edo Yiming on the city wall very surprised.

Ye Qingyun and Qu Dong led the Chongqing army to station in front of the official road in the south of Suwon City.

Qu Dong picked up his telescope and looked at the heavily guarded Japanese soldiers on the city wall and said: “The Japanese pirates are brave but foolhardy, just as the emperor said.”

During the military course at Tianzi Academy, he once asked the emperor about the situation of the Japanese army. Xiao Ming told him about this matter.

He believes that Japan is an extremely short-sighted country that never considers the consequences of doing things. Its foreign strategy is not far-sighted, but like a gambler.

Once they decide on a plan, they will bet on it until they are beaten to a bloody pulp, and when they are strong again and have accumulated enough gambling capital, they will do it again.

The reason why the Japanese country has such characteristics is due to the fact that one country has enough water and soil to support its people. The Japanese country has a small land and poor resources. It has never felt safe about the land where it lives, and always longs for the vast land of the Central Plains.

Ye Qingyun was noncommittal and said: “He is indeed a fool. Their supplies have been cut off, so why do we need to attack the city? It is enough to starve them to death, not to mention that we can surround the place and call for reinforcements.”

Qu Dong nodded, and this It was their plan that they would spread the news that Suwon City was under siege and wait for the Japanese pirate army to come to rescue.

At that time, the Japanese army coming here can be easily defeated.

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Qingzhou.

Lin Wentao smiled as he looked at the industrial machine with millimeter-level precision in front of him. The so-called industrial machine is a machine that manufactures machines and machinery.

It can be said that the working machine is the cornerstone and cradle of the entire industrial system, and is the basis for determining the industrial level of a country.

In the past seven years, the accuracy of Da Yu’s industrial master machines has remained at the millimeter level, which is sufficient for the use of rough machinery such as first-generation steam engines, flintlock guns, artillery, and production machinery.

But it is not enough for breech-loading guns, second or even third-generation steam engines, and various precision machinery in workshops.

It is for this reason that the emperor has upgraded the schedule of industrial mother machines with millimeter-level precision.

Now, with the accumulation of technology and hard experiments overnight, they finally produced the first batch of silk-meter-level measuring tools, some of which were installed as part of the lathe.

Craftsmen who produce spare parts can manufacture more precise parts directly through measuring tools.

Through the emperor’s explanation that day, Lin Wentao basically understood the principles of precision machine tools. The emperor even gave an interesting example at that time. He said: There was a dog in the palace. This dog could gnaw out flour cakes like a dog. It’s round, but if I take the cake and grind it slowly on his teeth, I can make a perfect circle.

In this example, the dog is the machine tool, representing the processing accuracy of the machine tool itself. The emperor compared himself to a machine tool craftsman, representing the measurement accuracy.

To put it simply, improving the accuracy of machine tools involves two aspects. The first is the precision processing of the machine tool itself, and the second is the correction of deviations by craftsmen after measuring using precision measuring tools. Both of these are indispensable.

Millimeter-level lathes can only produce parts with millimeter-level errors, and millimeter-level lathes can only produce parts with micrometer-level errors, and then they need to be polished by hand.

This incident made him understand that manufacturing more accurate industrial machines can only rely on manual polishing. Because of this, the lathes now have more precise accessories. Through manual correction, the accuracy of the lathes has been further improved. improve.

Coupled with the emergence of millimeter-level measuring tools, he believed that these machine tools had reached the standards required by the emperor. With these lathes, the industrial level of Dayu would also enter a new era.

When he was feeling happy, a hearty laughter suddenly came from him. This familiar voice made him turn around immediately.

“Your Majesty!” Lin Wentao bowed and said.

Xiao Ming waved his hand to excuse Lin Wentao. He had been paying attention to the lathes during this period, so he rushed over after Lin Wentao manufactured all kinds of lathes.

Looking at the screw lathes, gear lathes, drilling machines, boring machines, etc., Xiao Ming smiled with satisfaction.

Although he attached great importance to lathes in the past, he never formalized the production of lathes. After all, the industry at that time was still in the barbaric growth stage.

Now that the precision concept of the industrial master machine has been proposed, the lathe itself must also be taken seriously. He said to Lin Wentao: “It’s done well, but you can’t be idle now. You must build a lathe workshop immediately and select a group of old craftsmen. , specializing in manufacturing high-precision lathes.”

Lin Wentao looked excited. The emergence of high-precision lathes meant that he could manufacture more machines, which was a fatal temptation for him who was a fan of machinery.

PS: There is another chapter, a little later.

(End of chapter)