Ji Feng has always wondered how the steam engine came about, and the large box structure being processed by several boring machines is the answer he dreamed of.

"I ...... Oh, my God...... And such a big guy! Ji Feng said in surprise.

"Yes, what is being built is the latest and largest steam engine, and it will be off the assembly line in half a month."

"Half a month, how long does it take to produce such a machine."

"It's hard to say, only counting the processing takes more than seven or eight days, if you count the mold, iron smelting, production, assembly, commissioning, it takes two months if it goes well, and it takes 80 days if it doesn't go well."

"It's going to take so long!"

"Of course, Bo Yuanjun thought it was all conjured up by Ben Hou out of thin air!"

The latest production of large steam engines has been redesigned and finalized, the structure is more reasonable, the work has been increased by five percent, and the power is also greater, using modern processing machines to produce, all apertures are processed and formed most likely do not take two days, but now it takes about seven or eight days, which is not only a problem of machine tool performance, but also a tool problem.

First of all, the current maximum speed of the boring machine can only be driven more than 200 revolutions, not that it can not be higher, the highest can be driven to eight or nine hundred revolutions per minute, but it is not much meaning, because the blade and the tool holder can not stand it, and the feed cutting is completely hand-cranked.

Although boring does not require special inserts, and it is very convenient to use industrial diamonds to machine the inner hole, and there is no problem with the tool material, the tool holder required for machining deep holes, as well as the grinding of the piston cylinder surface, need to be processed in one piece on the boring machine, so the roughing and finishing grinding of the inner hole takes more time.

In order to improve production efficiency faster, Bailiyan's method is to divert products, train more fitters and mold workers, improve casting accuracy, reduce casting allowance as much as possible, and mark the fitter in the early stage, so that the fitters can file and chisel, saw the bow, pre-process part of the inner hole, and even the main aperture of the smaller steam engine can be completed with bare hands, and finally the boring machine is finished to shorten the production time.

Of course, this may cost you money and money, but it is worth sacrificing manpower to expand production capacity as soon as possible.

Because the visit time was far longer than expected, Ji Feng and his entourage only inspected the two major workshops of forging and machining that day, although it was only the tip of the iceberg of Yongxing City, but Ji Feng did not sleep all night that night, and the worry in his heart became more and more serious.

In the following two days, they visited the production and processing workshops of car-making, looms, bearings, measuring tools, gears, assembly, cutting tools, weapons, grinding, springs, printing, and instruments.

Among them, the three departments of bearing, measuring tools and assembly belong to one factory, because these three production departments are the products with the highest precision requirements at present, especially the production and manufacturing of measuring tools, which are related to all areas of mechanical production. The machining and assembly of bearings and their manufacturing and assembly requirements are high, at least for the time being, the accuracy requirements of bearings are second only to measuring tools.

In addition, the heat treatment, design department, technical department, university hall, library, Xicheng and other core departments are not open. Even if it is opened, a bitter and tiring place such as heat treatment can neither produce direct economic benefits, nor can it bring national defense needs, which is dispensable for Ji Feng, a layman.

However, heat treatment is indeed a more core process department than all departments, and the quality of material forging is one of them, and heat treatment is the core.

There are many types of heat treatment, through the repeated superposition and combination of different processes, so that the material can meet the requirements of the index, so the strength of heat treatment is the most important category of material science, is the lifeblood of modern processing enterprises, as a practice, has never been open to the public.

Although Ji Feng and the others are completely laymen, they uphold the usual convention, and there are no exceptions in the fields that cannot be opened.

On the fourth day of the visit, Duan Songzhi and others continued to keep their mouths shut, boasting as much as they could, and not saying a word, except for the Design Department, the Technology Department, the University Hall, and the Library, all the large and small workshops and institutions in the east of the city were all gone.

Bailiyan originally planned to introduce Ji Feng and others to visit the school, but Ji Feng was full of interest and had no intention of visiting the school, which shows how much he neglected the development of education. In view of this, Bailiyan no longer intends to do more.

However, in the afternoon of the same day, Ji Feng suddenly proposed to go to Xicheng:

"Yongxing Hou, why is it only in the east city, not in the west city to watch."

"Xicheng is all about iron smelting and copper smelting, so there's nothing to see."

"Nothing to see?" Ji Feng was suspicious, so he said tentatively: "Yongxing City produces five million catties of iron, you Xianguo will not hide a bigger secret and dare not show it." ”

"Even if there is, it seems to have nothing to do with Bo Yuanjun."

Ji Feng's cheeks twitched, and although his face had not changed, he could see the jealousy and redness in his heart. At the next moment, Ji Feng pretended to make a gesture and turned to him:

"Yes, Yongxing Hou's move is a precedent for the ancients, if it is silent in Xianguo, it can't benefit all the people in the world, it's a pity, Yongxing Hou thinks?"

"Huh...... Bo Yuanjun's meaning Ben Hou heard it, but Bo Yuanjun didn't want to take it for nothing. ”

Ji Feng was stunned when he heard the news, blinked his eyes, and felt that he didn't understand at first glance. In his script, Bai Liyan should always struggle to resist, and then continue to talk, and suddenly went straight to the topic, Ji Fengmeng felt too surprised, but it was too smooth.

Not only did Ji Feng feel sudden, but Ji Kang also felt strange:

"What does Yongxing Hou mean?"

"What does Ben Hou mean, Bo Yuanjun should understand, do you want Ben Hou to say more."

Ji Feng was vigilant and asked tentatively:

"What do you mean, Yongxinghou!"

"What do you mean! I want to sit in Benhou's house back then, and the disaster came from the sky, and I was inexplicably tricked by Bo Yuanjun to make the secret recipe. Now that Bo Yuanjun has entered my Yongxing City, if he doesn't take away some things, Ben Hou will feel strange. Isn't it? ”

Ji Feng's face suddenly turned red, his ears and red face turned red, as if he had poked his sore spot, and his face twitched and smacked his lips and said:

"You know, Benjun told you the truth, you don't give the machine of Yongxing City."

"Hmph, I'm finally showing my face." Bai Liyan said disdainfully, and then said: "Master Duan, see it, the dignified brother of the Son of Heaven is so insidious, and he wants my Xianguo to give it away for nothing, what do you think is the reason." ”

"Hehe......" Duan Songzhi and the others pretended to be stupid, Lele Hehe smiled, and seemed to have nothing to do with them.

Seeing this, Ji Feng's face sank two points uncontrollably:

"Yongxing Hou, you and I still owe a contract, you don't want to make a bamboo basket for nothing."

"Okay, but it is impossible to send it for nothing, it is still the old rule, you Liang Guo pays for it, and Benhou will sell it to you after production. As for the money, eighty percent is traded in Xianguo Singapore currency, and the remaining two percent is paid in gold and silver. ”

"You mean it!" Ji Feng said firmly.

"You are here, and you can all be a witness. It's Bo Yuanjun, who has repeatedly backtracked and blackmailed, don't you think it's too much. ”

"Each other, each other. You Xian nationality this machine deceived the world to reap huge benefits, and I have not seen you Yongxing Marquis blush, is it still wrong for this monarch to seek benefits for the people under the rule of the Son of Heaven. ”

Ji Feng opened his mouth and closed his mouth to seek the benefit of the people, and what he said was so high-sounding and eloquent that even Bailiyan couldn't help but feel ashamed of him. As a politician, he can say anything that is profitable and shameless, which shows that the current Son of Heaven has done whatever it takes to keep his position.

"The bidding period is approaching, so that's it for today, please leave the city tomorrow. Now I don't want to accompany him. Jiang Jie, Wei Qi, let's go! ”

"No!"

Bailiyan pretended to be displeased, and left without looking back.

Ji Feng looked strange, and he felt that everything came too easily, but he couldn't think of anything wrong.

"Third uncle, why do I think this matter is strange?"

Ji Kang was worried, and Li Yi answered:

"What can be weird, my uncle has always been a good word, he said that if he sells it, he will definitely be able to sell it."

"Yes...... It's too easy! ”

Ji Kang was highly suspicious of Bailiyan's motives, and Ji Feng said noncommittally:

"Bailiyan has never suffered a loss, I pondered that he said to sell, the price must not be cheap." Speaking of this, Ji Feng looked at Duan Songzhi: "Master Duan, the Son of Heaven has always been kind to your faction, and the head of the sect can't deceive me." ”

"Eh, this sect has been blessed by the Son of Heaven for generations, so please rest assured that Bo Yuanjun will be relieved."

Duan Songzhi said that he was relieved, but he didn't think so in his heart.

The scale of machinery owned by the Ligong faction is not large, and due to limited financial resources, it cannot add more equipment to expand production capacity. Bo Yuanjun opened his eyes this time, and he was bound to make a big purchase, so the Ligong faction would get additional orders and profits.

While making money, the cost of large-scale mass production is further reduced, the efficiency is significantly improved, and the order of the company is added halfway, which is conducive to adding more equipment and increasing the production capacity.

Bo Yuanjun will definitely not be willing to let Liang Guo be left far behind, copying the ready-made model is an inevitable phenomenon in the vast majority of industrialization processes. Therefore, in the foreseeable short term, Liang Guo will use Xianguo as the standard to purchase an industrial base.

This alone brings enough capital profits to double the expansion of processing equipment, coupled with the uninterrupted allocation of Yongxing Hou Mansion and the treasury, to further accelerate the expansion and upgrading of Yongxing City equipment, and after a few years, Ji Feng will get all the ordered equipment, Yongxing City's processing capacity will be several times the current one.

Taking a step back, what can Ji Feng do when he gets the equipment, he first has to train technicians and accept advanced drawings and processing techniques from scratch, which takes time, but it is not the most fatal. The most important thing is that there are no advanced educational resources and R&D capabilities, let alone the predictability of scientific and technological trends, and the gap is at least 30 years.

All it can do is imitate, and even need orders from Xianguo, without the export of technical resources from Xianguo, Liang's industry is just a vassal of Xianguo's industrial extension to the outside world.

On the way out of the city, Jiang Jie asked as he walked:

"Master Hou, where are we going?"

"Go to the dockyard, there are some things to explain. How is the training of the new army of your military battalion and the soldiers and horses of the Eighth Lady? ”

"Because no new weapons were issued, it was difficult for the soldiers to understand the drill, so they were a little uncomfortable. In addition, the range of the new artillery is too long, and the observation power of ordinary telescopes can no longer meet the distance measurement, so the general suggested that some artillery observation scopes should be added as soon as possible. ”

"I will coordinate as soon as possible for the artillery to watch the mirror, and it is imperative that you first master the new drill code, it is really not good, customize some wooden guns to the carpenter factory instead of rifle drills, and how is the assassination technique groping."

"It's not easy. The rifle is not a spear and a horse, it is not long, it is shorter and longer than a long sword, and the last general has drawn a veteran of spearmanship to grope for two months, but it is still not as powerful as the traditional long-bladed gun and horse lance. ”

"Of course. It is not surprising that the new rifle is mainly used for long-distance shooting, supplemented by stabbing and stabbing, and it is not surprising that it cannot fight with a spear and a horse lance, but it is necessary to use a spear and a horse lance as an opponent to strengthen the rifle and fight with the lance. You don't have to be able to win, but you can't be too bad. ”