Iron Dynasty

After a spring rain, the weather gradually warmed up.

The roads in Qingzhou City have officially entered the construction stage. Cement workshops are busy producing cement day and night. At the same time, there are more cement pipeline workshops in the private sector.

These workshops buy cement from cement workshops and then use molds to mix sand and cement to produce cement pipes.

After the Qingzhou underground pipeline was excavated, the merchants who contracted the Qingzhou pipeline construction would come to purchase this cement pipeline every day, which made the cement workshop's shopkeeper a lot of money.

After receiving another fifty taels of silver, Dai Zixing happily closed his mouth from ear to ear. He was a Qingzhou local businessman and the first group of Qingzhou local merchants to join the Chamber of Commerce.

After the road construction was put on the agenda, Wang Qi handed over the production process of this cement pipe to the Chamber of Commerce. After learning the news, he went to the Chamber of Commerce as soon as possible and spent a thousand taels of silver to win the process. There are several other local merchants who have won this craft.

In the construction of Qingzhou Road this time, King Qi paid special attention to local merchants, which made him really benefit from the local merchants.

Although there was a lot of investment in order to win this process, the cost soon came back after the workshop started, and it started to make a profit, which made him very confident in this cheap and practical product.

"Zhu Wuliu, I will accept this silver." Dai Zixing looked at Zhu Wuliu with a smile.

This boy from Zhujia Village has become a celebrity in Qingzhou City. He borrowed three thousand taels of silver from the government office with the land lease and contracted the construction of ten private streets and underground pipelines. This courage is not something ordinary people have.

"Treasurer Dai, this is polite. I also want to thank you for your willingness to give me the pipeline some time ago, otherwise my money is really not enough." Zhu Wuliu said with a smile.

The people who followed Zhu Wuliu were from Zhujiacun.

Since contracting the road construction of Qingzhou City, he went back to the village to hire people as soon as possible.

Everyone earns thirty cents a day, and the young and old men in the village are vying to work with him. This leisure is also leisure. Thirty cents a day is almost one or two cents a month.

Where do the villagers look for such a good thing?

"What you said, your brother is the great hero of our film. Just rely on your brother's reputation and I can rest assured that I owe you a credit." Dai Zixing smiled.

Zhu Wuliu recalled his elder brother's handsome appearance in dark green military uniform. He was proud of him. This time he was able to borrow three thousand taels of silver. King Qi also saw that Zhu Sansi was very kind.

With emotion in his heart, Zhu Wuliu looked at the setting sun to the west, and said: "In short, thank you, I will ask Dai shopkeeper to have tea in the restaurant someday."

"Okay, okay." Dai Zixing said happily, "it's not too early, you guys will transport these pipelines to Qingzhou City."

Zhu Wuliu nodded. This time he rented ten carriages to transport cement pipes, which also cost money.

At first he didn't understand anything. The three thousand taels of silver that had been borrowed was quickly spent, so the king of Qi called him.

After that, he began to plan carefully, the money for purchasing materials, the money for renting a carriage, and the meticulous arrangement of the construction of the young man. Since then, he has slowly made money.

If the carriage can't enter the city tonight, it will have to be the next day, and then there will be another day's rent.

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Inside Qingzhou City.

Xiao Ming rode his horse to the Equipment Division. When passing through every street in Qingzhou, he could not help but look at it.

Because of the construction of the whole city, the roads are now very messy, and the roads are full of mud.

Businessmen from six states are taking the people on a busy schedule, and the concrete roads in some places have been paved.

In general, paving the concrete road is a relatively simple task. Level the road, pave it with a layer of sand and gravel, stand up on both sides with 20 cm high wooden boards, and pour the concrete on top to flatten it.

Although this project is relatively large, it is expensive because of the large number of people. Now that there is no machinery, Xiao Ming can only use the crowded tactics.

Therefore, in the past month, Qingzhou Road has become one-fifth, and the East and West cities, which are the key constructions, now not only have cement roads, but also paved concrete floors.

In order to clean the two markets, garbage pools were also built beside the markets, allowing vendors to dump garbage into the garbage pools instead of throwing them everywhere.

While the road was under intense construction, the production of knives from the Equipment Division was not idle. Today Song Changping brought news that he has produced spring steel.

The other members of the team have already forged the bolt parts, but the main spring is missing. Now that the spring steel is successfully made, there is no problem with the bolt part.

Arriving at the Equipment Department, Song Changping's team was gathering together, and Song Changping was saying something with the machine in his hand.

At this time, other craftsmen reminded him that Xiao Ming had come, and he immediately turned around.

"His Royal Highness, look."

Song Changping handed the movement of the flintlock to Xiao Ming.

The ready-made flintlock craftsmanship is given to these craftsmen, which means that these craftsmen have directly passed the research and development stage and entered the mature production stage.

Therefore, it is not a problem to forge a movement in a month.

The only problem is the spring steel on the movement, and this problem is also solved by the iron-manganese alloy.

"His Royal Highness, this iron-manganese alloy officer has tried more than a hundred times, and only then has he basically grasped the ratio of iron to manganese. The other parts of the movement have been forged by the craftsmen long ago."

Xiao Ming nodded in satisfaction. The refining of spring steel has broken through an important node in flintlock technology, and the rest is the barrel.

Although the current technology is backward and the alloy produced is more impurity, it is more than enough for the flintlock. He does not pursue the spring steel to meet modern standards.

"The movement is complete, now install the movement on the butt."

"His Royal Highness, what kind of wood is suitable for this butt?" Song Changping asked.

"Walnut and walnut wood are both acceptable. The **** wood should have fine texture and good toughness. This kind of wood has a beautiful texture~www.wuxiaspot.com~ It feels good, not easy to crack and deform, and is resistant to decay." Said.

Craftsmen have riveted the striker, gunpowder pool, and buckle springs to the main structure of the movement, using traditional riveting techniques.

This method is very simple. It is to drill small holes in the accessories and the main body respectively, and then pass the nails, and the two ends of the nails are flattened and deformed, and they are tightly attached to the wall, so that the parts can be combined.

Song Changping nodded, "His Royal Highness, now that the movement has been forged, do we organize craftsmen to divide production?"

After working in the military workshop for a period of time, Song Changping naturally understood that the efficiency of labor production was extremely high.

Like artillery, Xiao Ming also plans to adopt a division of labor this time. In fact, flintlocks were produced in Europe during the flintlock era, otherwise millions of flintlocks could not be produced in this period.

He said: "Just follow your team's current division of labor and cooperation, and now return to the military workshop. Each craftsman convenes several teams to be responsible for their respective parts, butts, and assembly."

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