I was going to Lushun, but before going to Lushun, Zhu Guoqiang still went to the royal tomb on purpose, of course, not to worship his ancestors, but to his own factory.

What was once an empty space has now begun to prosper, with several inns and restaurants opened, and even a green building.

"Lord Shizi!"

As soon as the front foot got off the carriage, the director Li Kai took a few people to greet him outside the factory.

Zhu Guoqiang approvingly:

"You've done a good job these past few months."

Li Kai is a native of Jinan, originally the head of the workshop, but the old owner died under the knife of Jiannu, after being rescued, he was also unemployed, and later when he recruited the head of the factory, he recommended himself to become the head of this small factory.

"Eat the food of the prince and do things for the prince, that is the way it should be."

In ancient times, a shopkeeper and a master like Li Kai was still trustworthy, not only because his reputation was ruined, but not only would the entire business community reject him, but it would even affect his son's future study in the imperial examination - participating in the county examination requires two Xiucai as a guarantee, but no Xiucai is willing to guarantee the discredited heirs of profiteers, after all, many Xiucai really have nothing but fame.

As for the shopkeepers who work for the vassal kings, lords, and officials, they don't dare to have any thoughts, after all, once they are caught, there is no way to live, and they are often still domestic slaves.

Although Li Kai is not a slave of the palace, the palace will regularly go to the factory to check the accounts, so this person is also very well-behaved.

Of course, this also has something to do with the products of this factory, which has been producing military supplies such as shells, armor, knives and soldiers for the past few months, which naturally cannot be sold well in the market.

After entering the factory, Li Kai pointed to a new house on the west side of the gate.

"Lord Shizi, you see that these houses are dedicated to casting cannonballs, and next to them is an iron furnace, which turns scrap iron into molten iron and causes cannonballs, and then sends them over there for annealing and toughening, and then sends them to the grinding machine to polish the casting seams......"

In order to increase the output of shells, the shells produced by the factory are cast with iron molds, but this leads to the shells are all white pig iron, and in order to solve the casting seam on the waist of the projectile body, a grinding process is required, which will annealed and toughen the white pig iron casting, increase the toughness of the cast iron, so that the castings can be cut and polished. The cast iron toughening technology is not complicated, it is just a matter of adding a smoldering furnace to the factory.

Although it seems to increase the difficulty of production, the cost increase is very limited because the grinding machine is hydraulically driven. Compared to the increase in cost, the smoother shell has a longer range and higher accuracy, and this increase in cost is undoubtedly worth it.

Zhu Guoqiang is naturally very happy about this, after all, this kind of "semi-assembly line" production did not exist before this, and the craftsmen in the factory are quite good at improving the production process.

"This kind of continuous production is something we have researched ourselves?"

Li Kai replied:

"Shi Ziye, it is the craftsmen in the factory who are thinking about it themselves, not to mention that it has increased the output compared to the past in various workshops, and it has also reduced the cost.

"Reducing production costs is sometimes in the details."

"That's not the case!"

Li Kai sighed.

"Later, a few people watched me reward the craftsman who made this suggestion with a few taels of silver, and they pondered there for a while, and then found some places and changed them slightly, not to mention that the output increased a lot, and they could save hundreds of taels of silver a month......

"There's such a thing!"

Zhu Guoqiang couldn't help but be surprised.

"Director Li, you pay attention, write down these improved processes, and then sort them out, and we will have a reference for running a factory in the future."

Staring at this place, which is nominally a factory, but in fact it is just a workshop, Zhu Guoqiang couldn't help but think in his heart, maybe this kind of improvement is the process from workshop to workshop and then to factory!

Even the Industrial Revolution was in the process of showing its germination. After looking around the factory, entering Li Kai's office, Zhu Guoqiang ordered someone to bring a paper tube, poured out the drawings from the tube, and then said.

"I'm here this time and I have a few things to tell you."

"The prince just commands."

As he spoke, Li Kai stared at the paper tube, thinking in his heart, he guessed what new things he was going to make.

"The first thing is that you recently selected a hundred skilled workers from the factory, all kinds of workers are needed, I am going to set up a bigger factory in Lushun, and I need to bring some workers."

Although many of the artisans were among the people rescued in Lushun, the workers here were accustomed to water-powered production, and bringing them over could speed up the commissioning of the new factory.

Of course, Li Kai will not object to this, after all, the entire factory belongs to the prince.

"Another thing is that in the future, the production of many munitions will be transferred to new factories, so what about you? New products are needed! ”

"New products?"

Watching Shi Ziye unfold the drawings, Li Kai wondered.

"Lord Shizi, what is this?"

"Pressurized water well!"

Zhu Guoqiang said with a smile.

This year's drought in Shandong and the five northern provinces weighed on his heart like a heart disease, and just relying on peas to hang his life was not the best choice. So when he was on the other side, he deliberately consulted a lot of information on drought fighting methods, and modern society uses deep machine wells to fight drought. But this requires not only drilling rigs to drill wells, but also pumping machines to pump water. In the thirteenth year of Chongzhen's Daming, it is obviously unrealistic.

So, after researching a lot of information, he finally chose pressurized water wells, which were very common in rural areas before the 21st century.

Compared to machine wells, pressurized water wells only require a piston well made of cast iron and a water pipe deep into the ground, and water can be lifted from a depth of 10 meters through piston movement. Although the water output from the man-made pressurized water wells was limited, in the eighties and nineties, the pressurized water wells were often used for temporary emergency drought relief, and their structure was simpler, but it was only cast with pig iron and a few pieces of cowhide.

With it, at least some people can press out some water, water a few acres of land, and maintain a minimum livelihood in such a year of great drought.

"This, this is the well? What kind of well is a pressurized water well? ”

Li Kai looked at the drawings in surprise and wondered.

"Lord Shizi, this is iron, is there an iron well here?"

"Not in the past, but now there is!"

Zhu Guoqiang said with a smile.

"From now on, the factory should produce as many of this kind of wells as possible, as for how to produce water, I will give you some information this time, and after the production is completed, except for the first batch sent to Lushun, the others. I try my best to sell it, and I will say hello to Governor Song when I go back, and sometimes the government will fully cooperate, after all, this is related to the livelihood of millions of people,"

For the government, such drought-resistant things are naturally the better. No matter how effective it is, as long as it can be used, they will definitely be happy to cooperate with the promotion.

Of course, the production and manufacture of such pressurized water wells requires a lot of iron, the only fortunate thing is that the price of iron in the Ming Dynasty is not expensive, even if every household can not be uneasy on this kind of pressurized water well, as long as there is a household pressed, there can always be a family.

In such a year of drought, pressurized water wells can be life-saving wells!

Now that they have not made a physical object and no wells have been drilled, they will definitely have some suspicions, but Zhu Guoqiang believes that when they see the continuous flow of water from the pressurized well, they will no longer have any doubts.

Of course, whether it is promotion or drilling, a certain amount of technology is required. But if you want to promote it to the whole country, what is more needed is that the production capacity is far from meeting the needs of the whole country by relying only on the output of such a factory.

"Go back and print a few more books to promote this pressurized water well! Let each place organize its own casting of pressurized water wells, and it will be a person who can save one person. ”

Zhu Guoqiang said to himself in his heart, of course, he didn't know what kind of changes his decision would bring to Daming, but at least it could save many people.

Thinking so in his heart, Zhu Guoqiang came to Zhuangzi near the royal tomb again, but as soon as he got close to Zhuangzi, he heard the sound of reading from there, which was the children in the nursing home reading......

Listen to the sound of reading aloud. Zhu Guoqiang couldn't help but show a smile on his body.

"Let them also prepare and go to Lushun together, after all, they are the future."