Chapter 16 Salt, Shuttle, Isabella Spinning Machine
Blood has been spilled in the British sky, and there are no bullet marks on the Norman beachhead.
Allah is on the south bank of the Green River, and only the Rhine flows north.
Feeling the appearance of the straw bales of Europeans 500 years later, Ferdinand reminded himself that Spain could not play isolation like the United States and later Europe, where thousands of people died and felt very distressed, and they wanted to withdraw from the war immediately. The United States mobilized more than 12 million people in World War II and died 400,000, of which only 290,000 died in battle, which was only one-ninetieth of China and one-seventieth of the Soviet Union. For example, some people now express it openly and secretly. In later generations, there is no room for Europe to talk about, and the Virgin Mary descended to earth a lot.
This will not work, the isolation that Ferdinand wants is the glorious isolation of the British style, it is that I disdain to fight you, not the isolationism of the United States, I don't want to even dare to fight you, in the future, the army must be well controlled, there will be fewer big battles, and more small battles. There are fewer wars, more counterinsurgency. There are fewer enemy troops, and more thieves fight. The navy is fine, the pirates are more than a dozen (emphasis here). We should do a good job in integrating the active service, the reserve forces, and the militia, the regular army, the mercenaries, and the volunteer army, and the production and construction corps, the guerrillas, and the National Guard. The trinity of military law, military discipline, and military soul.
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"Look at me, look at my ......"
Tech Tree! It seems like it's been a long time since I've been ordering a little!
In fact, it is only October 15th, and it has only been three days since Ferdinand successfully developed the flintlock pistol, but it is no wonder that he is so nervous, saving Spain, localizing the New World, and running into the three mountains of imperialism.
"The price revolution has not yet begun, but it is obvious that Europe does not know how to dry salt, and the price of salt is not cheap now."
The salt drying method is a relatively easy technique to master.
Promotion and secrecy are debatable, but the technology can be developed and verified first.
DIY or something, Ferdinand liked it the most.
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Salt drying is the process of drying seawater into salt. When drying salt, the seawater is first introduced into the evaporation pool, and when the water is evaporated to a certain extent by the sun, it is poured into the crystallization pool and continues to be exposed to the sun, and the seawater will become a saturated solution of salt, and the salt will gradually precipitate out when it is sun-dried. This is the crystal, which is what we commonly see as coarse salt. The remaining liquid is called the mother liquor, from which multiple chemical feedstocks can be extracted.
Salt drying generally has to go through seven sets of processes: beach building, beach rectification, tide acceptance, brine making, brine measurement, crystallization and salt harvesting.
The beaches are built on flat coastal barren beaches, according to a certain number of beach ponds. The ridge of the pond is generally about half a foot high, built a square pool, the area from top to bottom each square pond side length is generally 8 steps (five feet per step), the beach pond is dug low one by one from top to bottom, the drop is generally 3 inches, there is a pool door between the upper and lower pools, which is used to flow water downward. A mound, commonly known as a salt mound, is built under the bottom pond to prepare for salt storage. Dig two or three large ditches around the beach pond, commonly known as salt ditches, in order to store water in the tide. On the seaward side of the ditch, open a water gate and set up a gate to prepare for opening and closing. Outside of it, open a "tidal ditch" again, which leads directly to the sea, is used to lead the tide into the ditch, and prepares the salt ditch to accept the tide.
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October 30, 1492
A group of royal guards cordoned off a remote stretch of beach, and more soldiers began to operate a small-scale salting plant in accordance with Ferdinand's arrangement.
Ten days later, the salt was run out and the beach was razed as if nothing had happened.
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In the past twenty days, Ferdinand has not been idle. He himself never went to observe the salt drying because he was DIY the shuttle - according to the drawings and photos in his memory, he successfully made the shuttle and installed it on the loom, and made some improvements to the structure of the loom.
The invention of the shuttle increased the weaving speed and thus revolutionized the field of spinning.
Following the success of the DIY shuttle, Ferdinand completed the first prototype (original version) of the Jeanne spinning machine at the end of November with the help of several craftsmen and spinning artisans, and it was up and running on 1 December.
After the craftsmen had made improvements and mass-produced, Ferdinand considered a name for it.
Let's call it Isabella Spinning Machine, one of my daughters and one wife are called Isabella, no, the wife is the same......
Then you can take this as a gift for Christmas.
It is said that this gift on Christmas morning really amazed everyone, and at the same time spun eight yarns at the same time it was really unimaginable to people at the time, and the little story about this invention is indeed a key to breaking through the mindset. The limitations of the times are really annoying, but others have this limitations, and that is very good.
The two daughters (Princess Isabella widowed and Catherine when she was young) also had a textile contest, and the result was that Juana won, smiling so much that it was a sunny one.
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26 * 12 * 80% = 249.6, which is about equal to 250 finished flintlock guns.
The two workshops at present were highly skilled, and the first guns, if it had not been for the special influence of that Jewish craftsman, would have all succeeded. However, even if the two workshops have basically mastered the technology now, and can operate on their own without guidance, let each of them build a gun per month, with an 80% yield rate, such a very hard work, they can only produce 250 flintlock pistols a year.
It seems that the team of flintlock muskets will be expanded to at least 2,600 people, with an annual output of 25,000 flintlock pistols, which is still very pitiful, but the accumulation of twenty-five years is enough for the time to fight Portugal. Of course, this is only on the scale of recent years. After the annexation of Naples, taking advantage of the cessation of the fighting, it is necessary to upgrade the flintlock pistol gunsmiths to produce 50,000 pieces per year. Now he understands the embarrassing environment of the Continental Army.
It seems that the industrial revolution is indeed necessary, and it is almost impossible for him to cry without tears! And the premise is that the kingdom's already insufficient finances can afford it. However, the decree of 1492 squeezed a large amount of money from the rich Jews, and retained a large number of craftsmen and skilled workers, and he did not worry about financial expenditures in the future inflow of gold, silver and resources in the Americas, and sure enough, 1492 was really the best of times.
The drill was so successful that it "literally ended the firearms and tactics of the knightly era," says Cisneros.
Before the complete end, when the firing pistol came out and even the machine gun era, the cavalry was the material to send to death......
Don't know what Columbus is doing now?