Chapter 705: The fever caused by the steam engine

The roar of steam engines and the smell of metal filled the military workshop.
Briefly speaking of the purpose of coming here this time, Xiao Ming inspected the gun workshop and artillery workshop as usual.
In the gun workshop, he focused on the production of cone-shaped bullets. The cone-shaped bullets were cast in a mold, and then polished and checked by craftsmen.
The advantages of rifled guns are obvious, but the requirements for bullets are also strict. Unqualified cone-shaped bullets will cause disastrous consequences for soldiers.
Therefore, after each batch of bullets are cast, the craftsman will strictly verify them. After the verification, the craftsmen will insert the wooden support into the hole behind the tapered bullet, which is also to ensure the air tightness when shooting.
Xiao Ming said that each craftsman will produce three bullets a day is just a minimum prediction, after all, the military workshops now have mastered assembly line production.
Different craftsmen are in charge of different processes, casting, polishing, making wooden pallets, and assembling. These four processes are carried out by the division of labor of 1,000 people.
After patrolling in the gun workshop, he went to the gun workshop again. Long ago he asked Chen Qi to study the rifled gun.
After exploration, the artillery workshop has successfully produced a rifled gun. According to Chen Qi, the production speed of the rifled gun is slow, but the range is much longer than before. Now the shell can be shot five miles away.
"Wu Li?" Xiao Ming was slightly satisfied with the data. Wuli is 2,500 meters. This range should not be lost to Western artillery.
"Priority should be given to the warships with this kind of naval gun." Xiao Ming ordered, whether it was from the French or the British, Xiao Ming began to be vigilant.
The internal worries have not yet been resolved, and the external problems are coming. Xiao Wenxuan really left him a huge mess, but fortunately, it is too far away from the West. It is impossible for France or Britain to deploy large-scale troops here.
Now they are just playing the role of churn, making trouble in East Asia, and now his main enemy is the barbarian, the Wa Kingdom, Goryeo, and the King of Chu.
And this was precisely Britain, and France wanted to use it to contain him, so with the cooperation of France and the king of Chu, Britain went to the country of Japan.
Although Xiao Ming was angry at the small actions of these two Western powers, he was helpless at the moment, but the world will not always be theirs.
When the six states have popularized industry and the people's livelihood in the north has been restored, this is when he showed his claws.
After inspecting the military workshop, Xiao Ming and Qian Dafu returned to Qingzhou City.
At the same time, under the auspices of Fiji and Pang Yukun, the Six-State Reform Movement is also unfolding step by step.
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At the gate of the Qingzhou Chamber of Commerce, Zhu Wuliu and other businessmen were waiting for Li Kaiyuan to come out.
News about private workshops in the newspapers had spread throughout the six states, and businessmen who wanted to get a share of the pie immediately flocked.
In the past two years, Zhu Wuliu has made a lot of money from the white sugar workshop, and his family has become well-off. He not only bought a large house in Qingzhou City.
Not only him, but Zhu’s family village also produced five wealthy families, all of whom lent Zhu Wuliu silver when Zhu Wuliu built the white sugar workshop.
At that time, Zhu Wuliu promised to give them money based on the amount of money. Because of this, they also became rich and envied many people.
"Brother Wuliu, there are so many people here today." Behind Zhu Wuliu is a thin young man with a shorter head. His name is Shangguanyong, who is also from Zhujiacun.
Zhu Wuliu looked at the long dragon behind him. There were not one thousand and seven hundred merchants who came to the Chamber of Commerce this time. He said,
This time it’s dangerous. All of these merchants have a solid wealth. We may not be able to fight them. It is said that the number of steam engines is limited. , You have to wait when sold out."
Shangguanyong was more anxious than Zhu Wuliu. Many people in the village did not participate in the white sugar workshop last time. This time Zhu Wuliu wants to set up a workshop again, and all of them have put their money in Zhu Wuliu. The purpose is to be able to get a share of this workshop this time.
Touching his chest, Shangguan Yong confirmed whether the silver bills exchanged at Qingzhou Bank were still there. The money on his body was the savings of the whole village. If he lost it, he would sell himself and couldn't change it.
"Brother Fifth and Sixth, it's really impossible. You go to Brother Third and Fourth. I heard that Brother Third and Fourth has been transferred back from Ryukyu, and he has also been promoted to lieutenant. If you ask him to fight the relationship, the steam engine will not be stable this time. Already?" Shangguan Yong said.
Zhu Wuliu's face turned black when he heard that, he said:'Second brother is a member of the army and cannot participate in business. If he is known, he will be expelled from the army. If you let me find him, you are harming him, my business. Whether you can do it or not, the second brother can't take off his uniform. This is an honor to our old Zhu family. "
Shangguan Yong smiled twice: "I'm not worried. Actually, if I broke my leg when I was a child, and now I want to be a soldier, you see how prestigious the soldiers are now. I don't say that the government sends rice noodles at the end of each year. Soldiers can now give priority to many things, that is, buying things at the Qingzhou Chamber of Commerce store only costs half the money."
"Of course, if no one was willing to be a soldier before, it's okay to be a soldier one by one." Zhu Wuliu was a little envious as he said.
It is said that the wars of the past two years have made many soldiers rich, and they will be rewarded after each battle. This has made many troops rush to fight.
The soldiers returning from the village gave the family dozens of taels of silver at a time to confirm this rumor.
When the two were in a daze, suddenly Li Kaiyuan appeared at the door of the Chamber of Commerce, glanced at the waiting businessman and frowned.
"There are a total of 100 steam engines sold this time, but it is said that the steam engine ~EbookFREE.me~ is actually a complete steam engine production line, that is to say, this is a hundred sets of production lines. For the sake of fairness, the price is adopted for the sale of the production line. The tallest have to auction, you can now enter the venue to prepare."
After Li Kaiyuan said and made a "please" gesture, merchants immediately swarmed into the auction venue of the Chamber of Commerce.
Businessmen in a hurry passed by, and Li Kaiyuan showed a look of helplessness. In the past two days, he had quarreled with Lin Wentao over the hundred production lines.
To him, the more the steam engine is, the better, but Lin Wentao prevaricates him back on the grounds that he can only sell the silver before he can continue to make it.
He only got a hundred sets of steam engines from the steam engine workshop.
After a while, the auction hall was full of excited businessmen.
Before coming, the government opened to them the official workshops such as the imitation workshop and the white sugar workshop. The role of the steam engine in these workshops impressed them.
The profit-seeking businessmen immediately saw the value contained therein, and this is what happened today.