Chapter 315: The Prelude to the Industrial Revolution
Most of the people in Funing County are still in chicken blood, and their heads retain the scene of the last test run of the No. 1 steam engine at the construction site.
Nothing has ever been able to give them such a big shock to these superstitious ghosts, it's really amazing.
In this backward and ignorant area of worship of ghosts and gods, the huge machine they saw with their own eyes, after adding coal and water, suddenly vibrated and fumes, and pulled up the large crane, which usually required many cows, horses and manpower to operate.
People and cows and horses need to cooperate together, the pace will not always be the same, and then you need to rest, but the monster-like machine can output evenly. Therefore, a steam engine with less than 20 horsepower theoretically works more comprehensively than a real 40 horse.
In addition to competing with forty horses, some manpower was also released, because even if the horse was much smarter than the pig, it needed people with equestrian experience to coordinate it to work, and that was dozens of people.
But now, this requires dozens of sets of people to work together, and it has been replaced by a simple and stupid steam engine, which only needs three trained people to operate, a captain and two assistants.
Now Funing County has set off a monstrous wave, and people's confidence in this period is not in the previous state of "unpredictable nature, everything depends on the will of heaven". Although he still can't fight with Tiandou, and Da Yan has never declared war on "Tianwei", the "self-reliance" that has always been emphasized is being accepted by everyone. From civil servants to peddlers and pawns, they have all subconsciously downplayed the influence of Tianwei, thinking that Funing County can control its own destiny.
The use of the steam engine was so widespread that there was a shortage of people in Funing County, and even though Han Qi's first immigrants had arrived and become residents of Funing County, the latest census report submitted by Anton only showed a population of "10,000 and 300 people".
The elderly, women, and children account for more than half. Fortunately, people in ancient times did not live long, and now the age structure of Funing County is relatively young, and the proportion that can be put into production is very large compared to later generations.
In particular, it has been a year since the health regulations of Dayan were put into operation, and the compressed military rations with total nutrients have been used for more than half a year. So the vitality and physical fitness of the people have changed quite dramatically.
Saying that everything else is nonsense, in fact, there is no need for a breakthrough in medical science and technology, but now the neonatal mortality rate in Funing County has been reduced by more than ninety percent, what is this concept: the same population base, assuming that one hundred newborn babies die every year, now only a few die.
On this issue, it is also nonsense to talk about medicine and even health regulations. In later generations, there were many big hermitages engaged in animal husbandry, and the largest proportion was still nutritional. The mother gives birth to a son, the newborn grows up, this is a natural law of the universe, its own risk is very small, as long as it provides the nutrients needed by the species itself, it has already achieved eighty points, will not be sick or die casually, and can generally be turned around and carried over when sick.
Everything else is just a plus.
Facts have also proved that engaging in biomedical science and technology is a black hole that is more terrifying than the military spending competition, so it is enough to get the basic score of the main body, and Dayan has no energy to engage in this project for the time being.
After getting the main score, other things are classified as "things that can be done or not done" by Dayan.
The urine of the big goose, you can do what you can't do, you must not do it. The project that the national strength of the great American traitor can't bear, and the big Yan really has no interest in trying. It was just used on the blade, and now it's very good.
The problem comes back to the shortage of labor in the population, which led to the shortage of steam engines. Because the plan has not changed quickly, even Da Yan did not expect that in just these two months, many projects have fallen into a bottleneck in production, and orders have been queued for two years.
The demand for daily necessities of the ordinary people in Funing County has been quite large, and then the medium-sized traders from the Suide Military Region have also begun to snowball, and they have ordered a lot of farm tools, iron buckets, kitchen knives and other supplies.
Now most of them have been used for the Northwest Investment Bank and the city wall construction project, so now the production capacity of the Dayan Machinery Factory has fallen into a serious bottleneck.
It was necessary to further release the labor force, so the original plan was to purchase six first-generation steam engines internally, but now under the application paperwork crying and shouting from all sides, Da Yan had to approve another six internal purchase orders.
Two of these six are used for forging.
Yes, it is obscene enough, as a traverser, Da Yan has not considered this aspect for the time being, but the soil that proposes to "encourage innovation" is germinating, so in the machinery factory under the command of Xu Langshan, there is a section workshop that puts forward the idea of mechanical power forging. It was adopted by Xu Langshan.
Because there are abundant R&D funds and not much money required, this project was approved by Xu Langshan before it even reached the level of Wang Yan. To this end, those guys developed a rudimentary forging hammer system, borrowing the power of a steam engine to drive the transmission rod, which can shake the hammer like a mechanical arm on a specific workbench to forge some high-end steel for large parts.
This is tantamount to passively climbing material technology.
Of course, the forging hammer is not artificially intelligent and cannot be used for fine machining, and the forging quality is certainly not as good as the manual forging of top technicians, which means that this system cannot mass-produce the sky knife used in Zhanzhao, but it can mass-produce large-scale forgings.
For example, after the total mass reaches a certain scale, Lao Luo Dad can't forge it by hand, and the impurities in the material can't be squeezed out at all. However, a stronger forging hammer can be used, so this system is equivalent to providing material and technical support for the design of the second belt steam engine, and solves the bottleneck that the current steam engine cannot be large in one fell swoop.
The other four of the six machines are used in water supply projects at any cost.
As we all know, the most inseparable thing from industry is water, so the current Northwest Machinery Factory has been frantic with water, the supply of water consumption from several large wells in the factory, and the people and cattle and horses who only served water earlier, almost to the scale of five or six hundred people, have become the hardest hit area of excessive labor consumption, and the efficiency is low.
Therefore, the pump has also been developed and manufactured, and the efficiency is not high, and there are many problems, but it can be used.
The cost of purchasing four steam engines for water supply was daunting, but after receiving the application, Da Yan approved the pumping plan for the four machines in the interest of politics and long-term interests, and in order to serve as a reserve of war potential on the eve of the national war.
What's funny is that Ye Wushuang was driven into the sedan chair again, and he had no choice but to place an order for three steam engines, and there was no concept of deposit, so he paid the full amount directly and waited in line.
She ordered two units before, and she used her own New Year's money to make her own money. This time, the three are owned by Northwest United Investment Bank, because his industry is also inseparable from water, and now her business and production capacity have also expanded to the limit, and more production cannot be produced.
Profiteers, of course she is willing to use workers when workers are cheap, but unfortunately the current official employment in Funing County is panicked, and she can't hire anyone.
But for those who can work, except for the group of children who are regarded as bone surprises and are escorted to the mechanic's children's school to study, and then except for the young adults who are soldiers, and the old and crippled, there is no one else to invite in Funing County.
Workers are not available, and her orders continue to increase. Under the price reduction guidance policy of Chairman Ye Qinghua, it is possible to increase production capacity with steam engines, but the more production is produced, the more losses.
Miss Ye didn't want to produce like this, but Ye Qinghua instructed her: "Burning money at a loss has to produce, now is the time to accumulate technology and experience, build channels, and expand brand influence." To seriously understand the pig breeding theory of the lewd goose, this is the stage of feeding pigs, and you can only keep up with the pace. In the future, the secret recipe will definitely be decrypted, so the comparison is not a move but a skill. Now you are afraid of losing money and not producing, but the group of people who need these things is expanding rapidly, and if you can't supply them, there will be other people who see the opportunity to enter the market, so the market is someone else's. Isn't it simple? ”
So as a last resort, in order to firmly grasp the more and more customer resources now, Ye Wushuang could only order the first-generation steam engine of the pit father regardless of the cost, and he couldn't invite anyone, so what else to say?
20,000 guan is just the price of the steam engine, all the technology is in Wang Yan's hands, and the price of the pumping system used to match the steam engine has also reached 15,000 yuan.
The pumping system is not a secret recipe, it seems that it is not difficult to build, but there are too many links in the design, and there will be too many problems in debugging, matching, connection, etc., this whole process, now only Wang Yan's team can fully understand and debug the basic pumping system.
Others washed and slept, such as those skilled workers under Ye Wushuang, called them over, and any link in the pumping assembly was not a problem, and when they asked them, they all said that it was not too simple to build.
Simple eggs! In order to save the 15,000 yuan quotation of the pit daddy, Ye Wushuang asked them to build a water supply system, but it cost 5,000 yuan to build it, but what else can you say if you can't use it? There are problems everywhere, there are weaknesses everywhere, although they are all small problems, but the goose, the accumulated problems after the combination of the whole system are so large that there is no system, a large number of manpower around the pumping system to find faults and maintain, there is no water, no one to engage in production. Of course, this can't be done, so the only way to be extorted is to pay Wang Yan.
This situation can also be applied to the "peak strategy" of the big bird. This is the reason why Lu Fang will be hung up and beaten by a big cat when his skills surpass Zhanzhao.
The water supply system is really not difficult in Da Yan's opinion, Ye Wushuang's group of workers were personally brought out by Da Yan, and their work is really not bad. The final problem is that Da Yan suspects that Ye Wushuang is of Indian descent in addition to his fair skin.
It turns out that the Indians who speak of personal skills are also top-notch. It's just that they can do the thing of breeding in nuclear submarines or aircraft carriers. By the way, they can also use Microsoft's huge resources and deep skills, but they only create such a bad operating system as Wen 10.
It's far away.
Generally speaking, Funing County is now powerful, thriving, and looking at the reports in all aspects can make Da Yan Shuang crooked.
So although the secret was stolen, Funing County is still very confident, and the people have no doubt about the ability of Da Yan to lead everyone out of the encirclement after the real war comes.
At the level of Wang Yan, the road to the industrial revolution, which was originally expected to take several years to ferment and evolve slowly, has now begun. The reason is that under such a tight order, the steam engine can already be profitable, and there is no suspense about this.
The reason why the steam engine can be profitable is that Ye Qinghua has been passively tied to the chariot, and his series of funds with no way out and terrifying magnitude have entered to play this feast that desperately needs to burn money.
It's all about money under the sun. Their funds can really accelerate the process of Wang Yan's industrialization.
Ye Qinghua's shark supported Ye Wushuang to order a large number of steam engines, and the purpose was also obvious: to develop the application soil of the steam engine, and by the way, reverse decomposition technology, planning to build his own steam engine.
Da Yan knew the profiteer's plan, it didn't matter, he wanted to build it, and now he tried his best to use Ye Wushuang's beauty to get the steam engine technology. But that's not the point.
In the case of the existing prototype machine, as long as he burns money, he can really build it slowly and can use it. But the big goose will be the leader, because the second belt steam engine of the big goose has already begun to be designed.
Da Yan does not object to others entering this industrial crown field, after all, relying on Da Yan himself, the machines that can be manufactured are limited, and the speed of spreading across the country is too slow. After he came in, and his machine was mature and ready to use, Dayan Manufacturing went to the top of the food chain with high precision, maintaining the accumulation and climbing of technology, and maintaining the top position of the food chain of added value of technology. And they go to the low end, and together they promote the spark of the industrial revolution to bloom everywhere.
After transitioning to a mature state, Da Yan doesn't even know how to build machines himself, he can only design and solve problems, and then authorize different solutions to different sharks to produce, just like IBM was so obscene in the past.
By the way, sell them the high-end materials they need.
This is a big game of chess in general, and it is using the urine and funds of these godfathers of Wall Street to push the big industrial plan forward quickly.
Now that Da Yan has more plans in his hands, the current ability to monetize has become crazy, let alone in the future. For example, just matching the various transmission schemes of the steam engine, the technology of the big earth is unparalleled on the earth.
Through these five years at the latest, the team of Da Yan should be able to make the transmission assembly and powertrain required for a large ship with a displacement of 10,000 tons, which was called obscenity at that time, as long as the heart is big enough, it will only dislike the world is too small and not too big.
Only the young people with sick brains feel that the world is very big and complicated, and the industrial party always feels that there are only two things in the world: steel and flame.
There is no problem that the main guns of battleships cannot solve in a hundred years.
Objectively speaking, since then, the Great Goose has officially opened the prelude to the Industrial Revolution of the Great Song Dynasty, and the next thing to wait for is to slowly ferment until fission, or even fusion......