When Dai Yan gained more benefits from iron kitchenware, Dai Yan began to systematically reduce the agricultural tools produced by Xiangyi Iron Works, and the number of iron kitchenware produced by Taoqiu began to gradually increase. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

In this way, in Dai Yan's hands, there is an ironmaking industry divided into three levels.

What was produced in Xiangyi was the lowest grade of rough iron, which was used to make some simple agricultural tools. Its factory was located in Xiangyi, far away from Taoqiu, and was jointly invested and controlled by Dai Yan and the Xiangyi aristocracy, and was the lowest level of the ironmaking industry in Dai Yan's hands.

Iron is refined in the pottery mound and the defective products obtained from the steel are used to make some simple kitchen utensils and some minor weapons that can be sold. Its factories were located outside the city of Taoqiu, and were jointly controlled by Dai Yan and those trusted by Dai Yan, such as the craftsmen of the Mo family, and some merchants, and were the middle layer of the ironmaking industry in Dai Yan's hands.

And the highest level of steelmaking industry in Dai Yan's hands is completely controlled by Dai Yan! Its location is set on a top-secret island in Heze, and the entire island is blocked by Dai Yan and strictly forbidden for outsiders to enter! And in the entire Taoqiu, there are no more than five people who know the location of this steelmaking plant!

The research on steel here mainly focuses on the processing of steel products. And the focus of research is undoubtedly on the mass production of steel weapons!

In order to solve such a problem, Dai Yan even had to spend a huge amount of effort to start establishing a machinery industry, that is, a machine manufacturing industry.

The mechanical industry was called the heart of industry in later generations, and this is indeed no exaggeration! In Dai Yan's view, the biggest difference between humans and animals is that in addition to having smart brains, people can also use tools. The use of tools to process steel, and even to make machines, is undoubtedly a deeper manifestation of human civilization!

The productivity of machines is significantly higher than that of manual production, which is the real reason why big industry is stronger than handicrafts!

And Dai Yan spent more energy than any of his previous investments in order to get a big industry off the ground, but the results were not much, which really made him extremely frustrated!

The foundation of the machinery industry is undoubtedly the machine tool. In order to come up with this thing, Dai Yan discussed with the disciples of the Mo family for a long time, and finally even the giants of the Mo family invited them over, and only then did they get an extremely simple machine tool.

This kind of machine tool refers to the many years of accumulation of Mojia in woodworking, except for a small part of the turning tool, rotor and other parts, the other parts are all made of wood! Its operation is entirely manual, first the workpiece to be processed is mounted on a wooden frame, and then it is turned with a rope, and then it is processed with a knife, a scraper, a rotor, etc.

Such a machine is not so much a machine tool as a hodgepodge of various tools together! However, Dai Yan was not discouraged at all, no matter what, this can be regarded as a machine tool! Its existence at least gave the Mo family a direction, so that they could continue to work in that direction!

The greater achievements in the machinery industry are a kind of grinding tool invented for batch cutting of steel knives, and a forging hammer imagined by Dai Yan.

The grinding tool of this kind of machinery, its structure is very simple, that is, a whetstone is made into a circle, and then fixed on a device with a wheel axle, as long as the handle of the wheel axle is constantly rotated, the whetstone on the grinding tool can be made to rotate constantly, at this time, if the unedged steel knife is placed in front of the grinding tool, the whetstone that rotates quickly can quickly sharpen its blade, so as to achieve the effect of opening the blade.

As for the forging hammer, it is completely a kind of machinery that Dai Yan thought of when he came with interest.

Its structure is very simple, that is, an iron chain to lift a huge iron hammer, through the external transmission device to lift the iron chain, let the iron hammer rise quickly, when the iron hammer reaches the top, and then the iron chain and the transmission device are quickly separated, the iron hammer through its own gravity, quickly fall, so that the steel can be forged.

The principle of a forging hammer is simple to say, but it is not easy to make it useful enough. First of all, in order for the external power of this transmission device to change, the up and down motion of the forging hammer must be changed to the rotational motion of the axle. With the accumulation of the Mo family for many years, this transformation was not difficult, and it was quickly achieved. And this rotating power can be pulled by horses or donkeys, and can also be driven by water power after using water wheels in the future.

The difficulty of forging hammer is that it is necessary to control the speed of lifting and falling of the hammer must be fast, otherwise the steel ingot just out of the furnace will be difficult to process after cooling. Therefore, Dai Yan chose to design an opening and closing device. The connecting part between the chain head and the hammer is an "I" shaped forged iron piece. When I is in its original state, it can hook the forging hammer; It is pulled sideways, and when it is tilted, the hook on the hammer will slide down from the inclined plane of I, so as to achieve the purpose of letting go of the hammer and allowing the hammer to fall freely.

And the thing that controls the opening and closing device is also to rotate with the nearby wheels and pull the I-connection parts. When the hammer is near the vertex position, the I part will be pulled and deflected by the chain, and the hammer will be lowered. And when the forging hammer falls into the bottom, the worker quickly turns the pulley and re-pulls the I part, so that the chain is quickly straightened and reconnected with the hammer!

This kind of "semi-automatic" forging hammer took him and the Mo craftsmen a lot of effort to complete. And the forging hammer obtained really lived up to expectations, and was able to forge some special parts, and the most obvious ones were steel swords and steel plates.

To create a steel sword, you only need to turn a small cube-shaped steel ingot into a long strip and press it with a forging hammer a few times to make the prototype of the steel sword. Then it is heat treated, and then it is slightly corrected with a machine tool, and the grinding tool sharpens it, and the steel sword made in batches is completed.

The steel sword made by this kind of machinery is naturally inferior in quality compared to the hand-made steel sword. However, its biggest advantage is that it has a large output, as long as it is fully operational, if there is enough steel, it will definitely not be a problem to forge dozens of steel swords a day!

It was obviously impossible for Dai Yan to use all steel for steel swords, and he valued another steel product more: steel shields and steel armor.

To put it mildly, these two things are actually the same thing, they are just steel plates that Dai Yan pressed with a forging hammer! A steel shield is a large steel plate, and then a handle is installed on its back, which becomes a steel shield.

And steel armor is just a "vest" sewn together from the fabric of steel! This vest has a steel plate sewn on the part of the chest facing the enemy, while on its back it is completely empty!

Such a design not only has Dai Yan's hope to save high-quality steel, but also has an important role in motivating! In Dai Yan's opinion, for a real warrior, a pair of armor to protect the front is completely fine, what is the defense of the back? If the army is really defeated, it must be a scene of wolves rushing to the pigs, and it is useful to set up steel plates on the back of the armor? Those soldiers who escaped would still resent him because the armor was too heavy!

And whether it is a steel shield or a steel plate, their protective effect is quite good! Although this steel plate is only about six centimeters thick, the bed crossbow produced by the Taoqiu Divine Crossbow Factory cannot shoot through this shield and armor beyond 200 meters with a lightweight bow and arrow! With such a result, basically any arrow in this era is completely immune, which must make the charging soldiers extremely brave and not afraid of life and death!

In order to make such armor come in handy, Dai Yan even specially formed a "trapping camp" that was completely used as a formation breaker!

And these produced weapons, in addition to letting them use them during training, Dai Yan usually protects them in top secret. In particular, steel shields and armor are guarded against as top secrets!

He finally felt a little relieved when he had established such a simple mechanical industry and could ensure that large quantities of steel weapons could be produced quickly when needed. In the era of the Warring States, the most important thing is the strength in his hands, and only by being able to quickly make weapons in large quantities in the future can he not be afraid of threats from all sides!

And once he had enough weapons, he thought about starting to accumulate some strength. In order to prevent Suiyang from being jealous of him, he chose to cultivate the most elite army: the cavalry troops!

He would never have been able to do this without enough horses in his hands before. But now it's different, he has a grassland with an area of hundreds of miles, and if this grassland is used well, it can fully support the enough horses he needs!