King Zhang Anguo wanted to borrow the exchange ratio to dispel the psychology of the Great Song Dynasty government's vain attempt to take advantage all the time.

Queen Tranquility proposed to postpone the increase in the exchange rate.

There are two reasons for her, one is that the Great Song government is not on the right track now, and they need to be given a little more time, and they have already begun to learn about the federal empire in many places...... This shows that the Great Song Dynasty was not an archaic government.

Second, the Tatar bandits, an external scourge, had not yet begun to be cleaned up, and the timing of the economic conflict with the Great Song government was not right now.

What if the relationship with the Great Song government is stiffened, then it will not be in vain to cheapen the foreign enemy?!

The attitude of Song Ziqiang and Wan Shida is very clear, it is one word: do!

Don't think that you are Han Chinese orthodoxy and you can play scoundrels...... It is necessary not only to increase the proportion of exchange, but also to raise tariffs!

The extremely low prices of their porcelain, tea, silk, and tung oil products severely suppressed the development of related industries in the Commonwealth Empire...... If it hadn't been for the early opening of foreign trade and shipping, similar behaviors in our local area would have collapsed long ago!

The Great Song Dynasty government is suspected of dumping at low prices......

The two of them had been busy building their steam and sail hybrid ironclads, and Song Ziqiang had been working part-time on his 15-horsepower flywheel diesel engine.

Wan Shida said: "As soon as the iron armor comes out, there will be no one generation difference, and there is no port in the world that can block us...... It was swept without artillery. ”

Song Ziqiang smiled: "Lao Wan, you still have the problem of being afraid...... Are you scared by the society on that side?

We are not afraid of ironclad ships, and big wooden ships can also sweep ...... The Great Song government is not bad, they don't have the habit of robbing yet, you are too worried.

We're just here to increase our industrial processing capabilities...... When my big flywheel is truly energized, the land of the whole world will be ours, and at that time, we will hum a little song and drive a walk-behind tractor-style ironclad chariot to crush all kinds of disobedience. ”

This is true, they really don't threaten to build a "Magna Carta" class ironclad battleship in a year and a half like they did at the beginning.

In the process of manufacturing, they found that there were not as many craftsmen as they could have imagined that they could keep up with their improved processing capabilities...... Perhaps it was the times that limited the imagination of those craftsmen.

For example, Song Ziqiang's large flywheel diesel engine project made them deeply touched.

The parts of the whole diesel engine are only more than 30 major components, such as organic oil pump, oil filter, cylinder block, cylinder liner, crankcase, crankshaft, crankshaft, flywheel, connecting rod bearing, connecting rod, piston, fuel injection pump, fuel injector, speed regulating ring, camshaft, timing gear, spindle gear, exhaust valve, intake valve, valve ring, air filter, intake pipe, exhaust pipe, diesel filter, diesel pump, water tank, water tank fan, fan belt, water pump, water pump belt and large flywheel, etc., and there are no starting motors and batteries, the charging regulator, and even the mute have been canceled...... This era is not afraid of earthshaking at all.

Others such as copper tubes, copper pads, and screw caps are not to be mentioned.

However, the worst thing is that the technicians who can be proficient in processing machine parts and are basically qualified are always those few people!

In fact, almost all of the diesel engines they process are running and dripping, and Song Ziqiang doesn't care about this at all, what equipment is there first, and then slowly improved.

Song Ziqiang matched himself and those technicians who could get started with the best students selected from the technical school as their apprentices, hoping to quickly expand the scale of production and processing.

But it backfired, more than a year has passed, and those are still the ones who can get started...... Even the apprentices brought by themselves are unable to operate the machine equipment independently.

Up to now, counting Song Ziqiang's independent processing, as well as the selection from the basic qualified parts, plus the repeated modification of the assembled atmospheric wheeled diesel engine, a total of only 30 units.

Those 30 diesel engines look the same on the outside, but in fact, their output power, most of the purchased specifications...... Most of them are different.

To put it simply, no major parts of a diesel engine are interchangeable without repeated modifications.

The repair parts and overhaul parts of each diesel engine are independent and have their own "personality".

Song Ziqiang gave up the plan to improve quickly, and instead fell in love with the slow rhythm.

He mounted a five-wheeled walk-behind tractor...... The five wheels, three small and two large, are made of cast steel strip slatted wheels, and then wrapped in solid rubber tires.

They secretly tried the car on the playground of the Liuqiu military factory, and it turned out that the speed of the five-wheeled tractor could reach a maximum speed of 30 kilometers per hour, and this was still with no load.

If it is fully loaded with five tons of cargo, its speed is immediately reduced to more than a dozen kilometers per hour!

During the test run, Zhang Anguo also came to watch it in person.

He, like Wanshida, doesn't care about its speed but about its ability to operate in the field.

They are happy that the walk-behind tractor's cross-country ability is really good, with a maximum climbing angle of 25 degrees, as well as the ability to cross rough and muddy roads.

However, Zhang Anguo saw that the driver of the walk-behind tractor was twisted left and right in his seat, while the passengers standing in the carriage were shaking from side to side and did not dare to let go of the handrails.

Zhang Anguo frowned and said, "Will it be smoother to change to four-wheeled drag?" Is it easier to use the steering wheel to control it? ”

Song Ziqiang said categorically at that time:

"No, not enough horsepower...... Front-wheel drive power, this model is the most applicable. ”

Song Ziqiang is right, the overall structure of the walk-behind tractor is simple, the durability is strong, and it is easy to maintain...... It doesn't take more than ten days to train a driver who can even repair and drive.

Of course, its shortcomings are obvious to all.

Song Ziqiang said firmly at that time: "When it is transported to the north in the future, it will be riveted with a ten-millimeter-thick galvanized iron plate, and then a hand-cranked Gatling will be more powerful than any broken four-wheeled carriage, and you will not have to stop at all when you travel a hundred kilometers in one breath!" ”

In this time and space, as they became more and more familiar with the cavalry, they found that even if they listened to the boasts of the ancients, what traveled a thousand times a day and eight hundred nights, their best war horses could not continue to run for fifty kilometers!

No matter how ugly or bumpy our walk-behind tractor is, it can run at least 100 kilometers in one breath!

The road is rough and muddy, and it is difficult for us to walk, but the war horse is better?!

Don't talk nonsense, in such a place, the war horse must rest after running ten kilometers, otherwise it will be exhausted to death......

Well, Zhang Anguo accepted the concept of walk-behind tractors, but its number is still too small, even if it is used, it will be possible to build thirty cars!

It takes 30 diesel engines a year to make it?!

Song Ziqiang could only say regretfully at that time:

"How can I have a little more this year, fifty units. We want to give technicians time to mature...... The effect of forcibly pulling up is not good, I have two whole warehouses of scrap there, wait until it reaches ten. ”

Wanshida is deeply touched by this...... They forcibly mounted nearly 10,000-ton ironclad warships, which indeed exceeded their current technical strength.

I don't know how many times it was reworked during the entire manufacturing process, and I don't know how many times the process standard was modified.