Of course, Feng Yunshan did not say that the No. 1 Machine Factory only produced steam engines, but that it only made sense to have steam engines first and then produce other machines. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

For example, Zhenghe hardware factory has produced handmade small rice milling machines, which are sold well in Liangguang and Munan and other places, and even, some hawkers with good eyes simply bought a rice milling machine, pulled by ox carts, brothers or fathers and sons go through the streets and alleys to solicit business, specifically to help large families or economically well-off people mill rice, make some hard money, at the end of the day, there are a lot, can feed a family very well.

However, the handmade rice mill is really hard money. The arm of the crankshaft should be manually shaken, and the speed should be uniform. It's fast, the chaff goes too much, the rice is crushed, it's slow, half a rice with grain, and the chaff is difficult to remove.

In this way, it is particularly difficult to shake the machine by hand. Even if the two of them took turns shaking down, their arms were so sore that they couldn't lift their hands, and they didn't want to continue working the next day.

Therefore, people who have bought this rice mill are looking forward to being able to do without hand cranking. But even if it is pulled by livestock under the change, it is faster and then slower, and the strength is there, but the milled rice is finished.

However, Feng Yunshan knew that this rice mill could work well as long as it was given a certain amount of power at a constant speed. In later generations, half of it was driven by an electric motor with a constant speed, and the motor could be replaced by a steam engine.

So, at Feng Yunshan's suggestion, Brown called Martin, and the two of them quickly drew a drawing of a large rice mill driven by a steam engine according to Feng Yunshan's description.

Seeing this drawing, Brown and Martin, who understood the working principle, were stunned: How did the Holy King's head grow? It's unimaginable how we can even understand what we are studying, and invent such a simple and easy-to-use machine so casually.

Then, Feng Yunshan remembered a new type of flour machine, which could not only process wheat, but also corn, sorghum, rice and other raw materials to make flour.

Feng Yunshan roughly said the following principle: a kind of roller mill, the grinding part is to use two grinding rollers with inclined teeth to roll the wheat into the gradually narrowing grinding mouth to produce extrusion, under the action of the two grinding rollers with different speed speeds, the grinding force is generated to crush the wheat into flour, and the broken grain into flour flows into a collected sieve.

It is stirred and thrown out by the rotating floor fan so that the sieve silk flows into the outlet port, and the slag is sent to the back slag outlet. The resulting residue is processed again, and in this way, it is recycled in order to achieve ultra-fine flour.

Brown and Martin were shocked again, and they were busy trying to absorb some of the working principles of Feng Yunshan's machine, this simple roller structure opened a window for the two of them to design and apply machinery, and their vision was much broader.

It turns out that this kind of two-shaft roller type rotation can also play this role!

Flour machines have long been available in the UK, a while ago, Nanyang Company purchased 10 units, but Feng Yunshan has seen that they are all formed at one time, that is, two large iron lumps are like the most primitive stone mills, sandwiching wheat in the middle, grinding, and then leaking from the hole in the middle to the bottom to collect it.

Obviously, the roller mill that Feng Yunshan said was much stronger than the old flour mill purchased from the UK.

Then, Feng Yunshan couldn't remember some other machines for a while.

Brown reported to Feng Yunshan, saying that he was going to organize the development and production of rice milling machines and flour mills mentioned by the Holy King just now, as well as looms, spinning machines, and various machine tools that he bought from Britain and the United States a while ago.

Seeing that the first machine factory has been basically completed, and it can still produce steam engines, and with the cracking and restoration of all kinds of imported British machines, it won't be long before these can be imitated, Feng Yunshan is very pleased!

Feng Yunshan asked Wu Chongyao to send a deacon of Nanyang Company to serve as the deputy director of the First Machine Factory, and then selected several backbones from these mechanical apprentices as the head of the workshop of the machine factory to assist Brown in managing the first machine factory that had been built.

After the establishment of the machine factory, although Brown was still the factory director, Feng Yunshan sent a deacon from the Nanyang Company, because the people sent from the headquarters of the Nanyang Company were local people, so they could play a supervisory role and prevent Brown from having too much power. It's not that he doesn't believe in Brown, but, well, Feng Yunshan really doesn't believe in foreigners too much, and he is relieved to grasp it in his own hands.

However, Feng Yunshan has explained that the deputy factory director still has to respect Brown, after all, he is a veteran of how many years of experience in managing a machine factory. As long as he doesn't do anything that harms Nanyang Company and the Holy Kingdom, he will still listen to him.

At this time, Liu Shengbang came to report, saying that there was an urgent report from Shaozhou Mansion.

Feng Yunshan took a look and couldn't help laughing: he has been really good things recently!

There are three messages in a row.

First, the first steel plant in Wushi Town, Shaozhou, has begun to be put into operation. At present, the output of steel has reached about 200,000 catties per day, and with the increase of mining and coal and coke production, the follow-up output will be more and more.

200,000 catties per day? The new holy system standards of the Holy Kingdom have been implemented, and they are all calculated in kilograms and tons, so why does this data reported by Song Tiesheng still like to use the original unit of measurement. Feng Yunshan was a little helpless, it seems that there is a long way to go to promote this measurement standard.

Feng Yunshan calculated, 200,000 catties is 100 tons, so to speak, the daily steel output is only 100 tons now, and that year is 36,500 tons. It seems like a lot, but it is far from the standard that Feng Yunshan imagined.

Feng Yunshan remembered that in the history of Zhang Zhidong, it took more than two years to build a Hanyang Iron Works, and in the case of lack of funds and coke, the iron ore had to be transported from Daye next to it, which was very inconvenient, and the people of Hanyang had been resisting the construction of the steel plant, but also maintained an output of 780,000 tons. Later, Hanyang Iron Works abandoned the original Bessewheat acidic steelmaking method with low output and poor quality, and carried out the alkaline method, which improved the output and quality, reaching an annual output of 160,000 tons.

And now, his first iron and steel plant, although more than 40 years earlier than the Hanyang Iron Works, but from the very beginning, it has adopted advanced production technology design, and Song Tiesheng and Krupp, who have rich experience in steelmaking, are managed together, and they have set the financial resources of the entire Liangguang to build it, and invested tens of thousands of Minzhuang workers, and the output is only so much, although it is high compared to the level of the world today, but it is still much lower than its own standards.

Feng Yunshan decided that the No. 1 Iron and Steel Plant in Nanyang would not be able to follow the plan of the Hanyang Iron Works, in addition to these three basic branches, and set up branches such as the Iron Casting Plant, the Iron Casting Plant, the Iron Rail Factory, and the Wrought Iron Works, and then recruit some workers, apprentices, and foreign technicians, so as to make up the largest iron and steel city in Asia with tens of thousands of workers and more than 10 foreign technicians.

But I can't rush to do this. However, he still had to remind Song Tiesheng and Krupp how to increase production as soon as possible. After all, the construction of railways and the manufacture of weapons in the entire holy country are waiting for the steel produced by the First Iron and Steel Plant to be cooked.

Then again, the output of one plant of this No. 1 Iron and Steel Plant is enough to exceed the steel production of the entire Manchu Dynasty. In this aspect alone, the strength of his weapon hardware is stronger than that of the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

The second news is that the arsenal next to the No. 1 Iron and Steel Plant has been established.

The reason why it was established so quickly was the help of Prince Karl of Prussia, who visited China last time, and Karenway, the ambassador to China. The technicians and engineers they brought with them with the visit stayed in Wushi Town, because many of the machines in this arsenal were bought from Prussia in their entirety, and the Prussian arsenal experts planned and assembled them from the various machines imported by the Nanyang Company. (To be continued.) )