On this day, the huge Wang Gong factory site is still bathed in the early morning sunshine, the officials of the Ministry of Industry and the Department of Cleaning have already arranged for the craftsmen to clean up the factory, and Lord Song Yingxing of Langzhong is running around, full of excitement and sweating. Today is a good day for the emperor to inspect the military factory, as the person in charge here, Song Yingxing is naturally very honored, he is afraid that something is wrong, and he is checking it around.

The emperor has not yet arrived, Bi Maokang, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, Wang Zheng, the left attendant of the Ministry of Industry, and Sun Yuanhua, the right attendant of the Ministry of War, have already rushed over, and just saw Song Yingxing from a distance, Bi Maokang asked loudly: "Chang Gung, are you ready, the emperor has already set off at this time, and it will be there in less than half an hour." ”

Song Yingxing turned his head when he heard the sound, wiped the sweat on his face, and replied breathlessly: "Master Bi, I called them up to prepare as soon as the sky was bright, but I don't know if these little rabbit cubs are lazy, am I not checking, or you, Lord Wang, and Lord Sun will help me look around to see if there are any mistakes." ”

Bi Maokang and the three of them agreed in unison, and then they scattered and checked around.

At this time, the newly repaired bluestone road has been wiped spotlessly, all kinds of building materials are also stacked neatly, the path from the main road to the machining workshop has been paved with a red carpet, tens of thousands of craftsmen have been under the supervision of Jinyiwei to work on their respective construction sites, the whole factory area looks neat and orderly.

The four of them checked for a while and found that there was nothing wrong, so they walked to the door and waited for the emperor.

At the end of the hour, a large number of Jinyiwei began to gather outside the factory, and then under the leadership of their thousands of households, they lined up in a neat queue to enter the factory, and lined up along the main road in the factory in turn, and in less than a quarter of an hour, the two sides of the nine roads were full of Jinyiwei.

At this time, the emperor's royal car was almost at the gate of the factory, and the Jinyi guards who opened the road in front of them began to enter the factory, and they did not stay, but ran directly along the avenue to the machining workshop, and soon the machining workshop was surrounded by water.

Zhu Cijiong has a feeling of being separated from the world since he entered the factory, this scale, this road, is too similar to the military factory where he worked in his previous life, only the factory building is an ancient building with a wood and stone structure, if the factory is replaced with a modern steel structure, it is almost the same as the previous life!

When he planned it at the beginning, he just subconsciously borrowed the layout of later generations, but he didn't expect that this construction would be so similar, witnessing the familiar scene, he couldn't help but sigh:

Modern people think that being an emperor is good, being an emperor is cool, I don't know how many people dream of one day crossing over, directly an emperor, but they don't know the hardships of being an emperor.

As an emperor, there is no freedom, no privacy, no room for activities, there is an endless government to deal with, he has to manage countless officials, and he must always beware of rebellious ministers and thieves, and he is like a puppet who is busy in the palace like a puppet, like a prisoner, even more tired than a prisoner!

Alas, everyone said that the emperor was good, and the emperor was not troubled. Zhu Cijiong even misses the carefree life he had when he was an engineer in his previous life.

In a burst of inexplicable emotion, he was surrounded by a group of officials into the machine workshop, which is a large factory of nearly 10,000 square meters, the ground paved with bluestone slabs, neat and generous, thick columns neatly arranged, thick and orderly. Two brand-new machine tools were placed not far from the door, and the steam was ready at this time, and the parts were clamped, just waiting for Zhu Cijiong to press the button to turn on.

The first batch of production is copper cylinders and copper tubes, which are prepared for subsequent machine tools, and the copper cylinders and copper tubes waiting for processing are all sand casting, cylindrical and cylindrical. The copper gas pipe needs to be drilled in the middle first, and then the wire at both ends; The copper cylinder needs to be smooth on both the inside and outside walls.

Zhu Cijiong walked to the front of the drilling machine first, and he quickly found the position of the air valve switch, at this time Song Yingxing stood respectfully in front of the drilling machine and waited for him to start the machine.

He took a deep breath to dispel the nostalgia for his previous life in his mind, and then resolutely pressed the gas valve switch, "buzzing" There was a light sound, the drill bit rotated quickly, Song Yingxing skillfully turned the handle of the pinion, and the drill bit slowly drilled into the copper rod.

This time, I used a new high-carbon steel drill bit, which was much harder than before, so I didn't need to change the drill bit halfway at all, and it took less than a quarter of an hour to drill through it in one go.

Sun Chengzong and the others next to him saw the power of machinery for the first time, and they were all dumbfounded.

They didn't expect that the copper rod that usually requires the cooperation of three people, and it took a lot of effort to drill through the copper rod that took a day to drill through, and it took less than a quarter of an hour to drill through this strange machine, and Song Yingxing, who was operating on the side, didn't have any effort at all, as long as he easily turned the handle of the gear!

After drilling through a copper rod, Song Yingxing skillfully closed the air valve, clamped the drilled copper rod to the side of the frame with a clamp, and then picked up an unprocessed copper rod from the ground and went up to the drilling machine to continue processing. But Zhu Cijiong walked to the lathe, ready to see the effect of the new lathe.

This time the lathe was operated by the Ministry of Works, the left waiter Wang Zheng, he saw Zhu Cijiong standing next to the valve switch looking at him, and quickly nodded respectfully, Zhu Cijiong was not verbose, and directly opened the two valve switches of the lathe one after another.

The cylindrical copper cylinder began to rotate rapidly, and the most amazing thing was that it automatically leaned towards the opposite fixed knife, and the copper wire splashed, and the surface of the copper cylinder slowly became smoother.

This machine is also amazing, it doesn't need human hands at all, and it actually processes parts automatically!

Of course, this is that they do not know the difference between fully automatic and semi-automatic, in fact, this lathe processing still needs people to clamp parts and adjust the position of the tool, and it cannot be fully automatic.

After the outer wall car was finished, Wang Zheng closed the air valve and began to skillfully adjust the position of the knife. After the adjustment was completed, he first manually rotated the gear, leaned the tool against the cylinder blank and tried it, and then opened the automatic feeding cylinder, and the inner wall of the cylinder began to slowly become smooth again.

Just as a group of people were staring intently at the two magical machined parts, Zhu Cijiong's mind suddenly remembered the voice that he had not seen for a long time:

"Ding Dong, congratulations on playing the third survival mission, and now we will start to distribute rewards, simple flintlock pistol blueprints."

Zhu Cijiong felt a little dizzy again, and there was an extra set of drawings in his mind, which was the exploded drawing of the simple flintlock pistol.

Before he could take a closer look, the voice of the system beauty continued:

"Ding-dong, please note, new mission reminder.

Your fourth survival mission: survive this world for a year.

Reward: Flintlock grenade blueprint. ”

Zhu Cijiong was a little blind, he thought that the gun was followed by a cannon, but he didn't expect it to be a grenade.

The system beauty didn't give him time to think, and continued: "Friendly reminder: The Ming Dynasty is about to enter a period of rapid decline, please be mentally prepared, Sao Nian, come on!" The tip is over, and I wish you a happy game. “

Well, the beauty of the system rarely teased him, but the content of this prompt was not funny at all, and for Zhu Cijiong, this was simply bad news.

What does it mean that the Ming Dynasty is about to enter a period of rapid decline? Isn't it fast enough that the front is decaying fast in the hands of the two loser emperors of Wanli and Tianqi!