Beiyang new warlord

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Power is really a good thing. Like back then, when Mao Jue built a body-protecting revolver for twenty taels of silver, he almost didn't sell his kidneys. Ye’s best blacksmith, thousands of catties of refined iron, and heavy lump coal were finished in less than half an hour. The gold ore lumps covered with carbon were burning red, and the eyes of several old goldsmiths were dazed. Watching Mao Jue gesticulate to force their jobs.

"You first build a boiler for the general. The upper and lower parts are separated, the upper part is filled with water, and the lower part is lit with fire. The water tank must be absolutely sealed!"

A piece of white and gray chalk was painted on the small blackboard. Seeing Mao Jue's saliva splashing and drawing a big egg-shaped ball, a group of craftsmen also became dizzy.

For a few days, a piece of gossip circulated in Red Shuangcheng. In the original version, Mao Jue was stunned by a big iron stove. Then, as it was passed on, the news was distorted. The person who hit Mao Jue changed from an iron pot cover to an iron cannonball fired by Jiannu, and finally became the Taishang Laojun's Tie Ruyi, a congenital spiritual treasure, and Mao Jue also From being smashed stupidly to receiving the aura of heaven and earth, if you want to practice a big spirit treasure, you will become a fairy after you practice it.

However, the gossip spreads strangely. These days, the number of people unloaded from Hongshuang's boat has increased several times. Gold mine!All the big merchants who moved from Fujian or Shandong and Shanxi wanted to slap themselves a few times. Why don't they bring more money and more shopkeepers? Now whoever has strong manpower and material resources can dig money here Occupying more shares in the work, letters were sent out saying that the money came at a stupid speed. In just one month, Hongshuang's merchant shops sprung up like mushrooms after rain.

One month later, Bitter Leaf Town Gold Development Company, a model enterprise of the later generations of Ming Dynasty, a classic combination of state-owned and private enterprises, was considered to have divided the cake under the compromise of all parties, and it was completely formed.

With mines as capital, 50.00% of the shares belong to Dongjiang. However, these days, there is no distinction between public and private, and soldiers are owned by generals. If they belong to Dongjiang, they belong to Mao Jue. There are more than 60 big businessmen with surnames left, including those who joined after Tieshan Subscribing together, the most holds 5.00% of the equity, and the least is 100/[-]. These big businessmen have invested more than [-] million taels of silver in the entire gold mine.

However, no matter how good the discussion was, Mao Jue had to nod and sign. The signboards were all painted in gold letters. This one carried the drafted contract. Cao Dashang, Captain Liu, and others carried wine, pigs and sheep, and beat the gong The drummer went to Mao Jue's house.

As soon as he entered the door, a sound of ding ding dong gong rang into his ears, and after walking a few steps, he heard a bang, the wall of the backyard collapsed suddenly, and suddenly a black iron head rushed in front of him Less than ten miles away, the dust splashed, scaring Cao Dashang and the others to sit down on the ground.

Mao Li, who led the way, slapped his head sadly.

"General! Are you all right?"

Following his words, another fleshy head emerged from the iron head, a small white face was smeared by soot into a small black face, Mao Jue poked his head out with a smile on his face and waved.

"Don't worry! I'm fine! Hey! Cao Dashang, Captain Liu, long time no see!"

Before the land was approved, a group of big businessmen stared at each other first, and Mao Jue took them to the Xishan Iron Mine not far from Hongshuang City. They also brought Mao Jue, a big iron lump, with them.

This thing is really strange enough. Behind it is a large boiler with a height of more than one meter. It is made of cast iron. When it came out, a water injection port was tightly covered by a valve.

Further forward is a large square cast iron box. Two pipes lead to it. This thing should be cast in two molds divided into two pieces. The hoop was tied like a Hongyi cannon, and a whole circle was fixed around it with large screws the thickness of a forearm.

Another pole sticks out from this iron box, and it is still fixed with screws in the front. It is connected to a bendable pole, and the other end of the pole is connected to a large handle wheel that rotates on the Dongjiang cannon. The wheel is finally connected with a belt. A row of iron wheels lowered by the whole iron guy.

Six steers were pulling ahead, and more than 30 merchants followed and stood on the crib of the iron guy.

No matter how you look at this iron guy who is full of the atmosphere of the industrial age, the eyes of a group of big businessmen are staring at him, and they can't stop glancing there.

Could it be that the fairy artifact that Mao Jue refined is true?Can't help being curious, Cao Dashang, thinking about his fat belly, came to Mao Jue with a flattering face, pointing at that thing and asking.

"My lord, what the hell is this!"

Mentioning this, Adelena who came out depressed her little head aside, while Mao Jue triumphantly patted the iron guy under her buttocks.

"You will know in a while!"

Xishan Iron Mine is the closest mine to Hongshuang. It is less than 80 miles away, and it takes about half an hour to arrive. Today seems to be an important day for Mao Jue. A large group of Dongjiang troops have already been waiting there. Under the eager eyes of these wealthy uncles, more than [-] people shouted and dragged this huge iron guy to the entrance of the mine, pushed up two steel bars, and the bottom was padded with square wood, on the ladder-like track , to retreat.

What the hell is this?

Still staring wide-eyed, this heavy guy was pushed to the bottom of the mine by the Dongjiang Army along the rails.

Can't help being curious, Cao Dashang's geese poked their heads to the entrance of the cave like that, looked at the ground, there was a buzzing sound, and a siren made them jump again. With the sound of panting, a heavy guy climbed out of the deep mine shaft with rumbling momentum.

hiss~

Every big businessman couldn't help but gasp

Chapter 344. The industrial storm in Dongjiang

Do one line and love one line. This plan is to open a gold mine. These days, a large group of big businessmen naturally did their homework. Until the end of the Qing Dynasty, the most difficult thing in mining was transportation. The miners worked hard to finish digging the ore in the mine. , and the heavy ore has to be carried out, and one person can carry up to more than 100 kilograms at a time. With the extension of the mine, the transportation time is getting longer and longer.

But this guy, an iron lump, is connected to six iron ore carts behind him, full of black iron ore, and he was dragged out of the ground while panting heavily. The ore is probably no less than two or three tons, and it takes workers To resist, at least the second NO.30 will be carried for a long time, which is good, and it will come out in one trip.

It is self-evident how much value this represents! Watching the black iron lump begin to unload, a group of big businessmen had golden eyes.

Adelaine's small face drooped, and this time Mao Jue made a bet with her again, saying that he could lift a thousand catties without water power, and the bet was still on the beauty of the moonlit night! Four centuries behind The foreign girl naturally didn't believe it, so she was dumbfounded again this time.

Gritting her teeth, the girl cried out sadly.

"Steam engine!"

"You actually know!"

This time it was Mao Jue's turn to cry out in surprise.

That's right, it's a steam engine. Mao Jue suddenly remembered it when he was startled by the bouncing boiler lid. Later Mao Jue didn't have a pure engineering background, so he remembered it because the steam engine was too simple.

There are only three components in total, one is the boiler, which seals and heats water into steam, and enters the second component, the cylinder, along the upper conduit.

The reason why the cylinder needs to be divided into two halves for casting is really because a partition is needed inside to divide the cylinder into two parts, the slide valve chamber and the cylinder chamber. According to the current technology, it is really impossible to cast a whole.The steam enters the upper raft chamber from the pipe, and enters the cylinder through the left inlet of the hole. Under the action of air pressure, the piston made of cowhide in the cylinder is pushed, and the piston pushes the lever to send a forward force to make the wheel shaft rotate half a circle.

There is another lever connected to the wheel shaft, and the other end is connected to the eccentric wheel shaft. The piston that is pushed out just pushes the lever back a part, driving the slide valve in the slide valve chamber back, blocking the left air inlet, and the steam is released again. One steady stream into the right steam port, pushing the piston back and completing the second half turn of the axle.

In this way, as long as the boiler continuously provides steam pressure, the circular motion steam engine can generate unprecedented power.

The United Kingdom, France, Germany, these old industrial powers all started with steam engines, which greatly reduced the price of industrial products, and the United States, the steam engine also shined in the beginning of the industry in the United States, like those old westerns, Mercedes-Benz The famous steam train, the rusty mine carts under the densely packed mines, and the rails all tell the glory of the steam engine in the past.

It’s just that Mao Jue’s steam engine is only in its infancy stage, only an independent condenser is added, and Watt’s eccentric shaft is used, which is a bit inferior to Watt’s steam engine. The ability to lift such a heavy mineral depends on body strength. Not bad, the cylinder is more than one meter high and two meters long and nearly one centimeter thick, and the boiler at the other end is also cumbersome, and it can hold almost half a ton of water at a time.

Fortunately, the steam engine still has an advantage in Dongjiang. The coal and iron land occupied by Mao Jue is not rich, but too rich! There are several iron mines in the vicinity of Hongshuang City, Yizhou, Iron Mountains and Hamgyong are also places where iron and coal are produced. With steam engines to help mine and drain water, it can't be too beautiful.

The only surprise is that Adelaine actually knew.

Listening to Mao Jue's astonished question, the girl rolled her eyes with the eyes of a caring idiot.

"My lord, England already has this thing!"

"What"

Mao Jue was a little dumbfounded when he heard this. Didn't the textbook say that the steam engine was not invented by James Watt in the [-]th century?

But even though it was ridicule, Adrena's eyes still showed admiration. England did have steam engines at this time, but they were only in the initial stage, so they could be used for mine drainage, and they were simply coal-eating machines, but Mao Jue The thing is obviously many times stronger than England's crude steam engine. If possible, she really wants to ask God, how did this guy's head grow!

In Adelaine's affectionate eyes, Mao Jue was sadly annoyed. Since he did not "invent" the steam engine, he would not be able to be the equivalent of Watt in the future, and the power would not be replaced by Mao. For more than a month, he was so excited.

Fortunately, he is not busy in vain, the visual impact brought by this thing is really enough, what happened to see those workers hurriedly unloading iron ore from the mine car, suddenly a shock came to his senses, the man from Shanxi The old Xi'er, shopkeeper Zhao, stuck to Mao Jue's feet like a rolling watermelon, and hugged Mao Jue's thigh, crying for his father and mother.

"General! This thing is worth the silver, no matter how much silver it is, I will buy it!"

His voice was like turning on a flashlight, and he was fooled by Mao Jue. Now all the Liao merchants who have settled in Dongjiang with him have golden lights in their eyes.

Before the gold mine was dug, the equipment production department of Bitterleaf Gold Company was set up first. The steam engine in Mao Jue's memory was very similar to Watt's improved second-generation steam engine, and it could be directly used for many mining industries in Dongjiang. .As for how to improve it in the next step, this brain cell will be consumed by the apprentices and craftsmen who are in use.

This year's Dongjiang is really full of new things. With the establishment of the Equipment Department, a new system was born, or Mao Jue brought a system from the West.

Guild system!