Chapter 12: A New Era
A day later, under the guidance of the "fallen man" Chen Tianya, he successfully made contact with the Red Turban Army, and together with the wounded soldiers who were withdrawn from the front line, he was sent to the rear of the old road and others, and took the carriage that was transported to the rear through the rails. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
The elongated carriage, the inner bucket is extremely spacious, the cart is pulled by four Hequ horses, this horse is extremely tough, the staying power is better than other breeds, although as a war horse, it is the same as the Sichuan horse, but it is a very good service horse, is a unique category of Bashu and the upper reaches of the Yangtze River.
Under the carriage, is a foundation made of stones, on which there are parallel tracks, the wheels are pressed on the tracks, greatly reducing the weight of the horse, in some designs, it is obvious that there are traces of the Mojia wooden armor, but the whole idea, but the old Tao is quite surprised, not that he can't design such a thing with his ability, but in the past, he really didn't expect it, and he was able to do this?
Sitting at the window, looking out, almost half a foot away, you can see the same track, but the things on that track are being transported in the opposite direction of them, and the cannons, chariots, and other things are placed on the platform without a cover.
Lao Dao calculated the time in his heart, from the occupation of Bashu by the Weiyuan Army and the Huaxia Army to the present, it was only a month, right? Although these two rails look very rough and simple as a whole, the manpower and material resources consumed in the construction process are also unimaginable, or can they really be done?
He wondered about it.
Many generals, in columns, marched to their rear like swimming dragons, and the transportation of materials has always been the most delayed thing, but at this moment, these reinforcements have fallen behind the military resources transported to the front. These are the state soldiers who have supplemented the Red Turban Army, and the battle to conquer Bashu all the way in front also makes them who are about to enter the battlefield also infected by their own high morale.
Two days later, Lao Dao and others were sent to Shucheng, where everything was busy, the wounded who retreated from the front line, and the materials transported from the rear were gathered and distributed here. During the investigation, the old Taoist heard that the person currently sitting here is Ju Zhirong.
I learned that in Shucheng, there were also many ink writers, and the old road of the mountain investigated all the way and came to a corner of Shucheng. The newly built big houses make this whole area look weird, there are clangling sounds everywhere, the tracks embedded in the cement paved stone ground, and the orderly people, from the perspective of the atmosphere alone, this kind of peaceful but everything is carried out in accordance with the order of the atmosphere, it is indeed very Mo's style, but there are so many big houses, busy people, but it makes the old road of the mountain can't understand.
"Senpai!" Someone ran towards him in the distance.
When the new Momen was founded, he had studied the Mo family's wooden armor mechanism with him for a period of time, and he was also a very talented Yanshi, and later, the side of the Heaven and Earth Society secretly contacted the new Momen, and wanted to borrow some talents who were good at casting, You Zhiyuan and some young people were sent over, and I heard that these people who were sent to assist later went to Yueling or Linghai, and I didn't expect that they would meet here at this moment.
In the chaos caused by the war, rumors are rife on the one hand, and on the other hand, it is difficult to spread the news that you really want. As a member of the Mo family, the situation of the Momen in the north also made You Zhiyuan very worried, today, when he heard the news that the Mo people who had fled south were sent to Shucheng, he immediately rushed to meet, who knew that at that time, the old road of the mountain just happened to come here, and the two missed each other.
From other people's mouths, he generally knew what was going on, and at the same time knew that the predecessors of the island had also come to Shucheng, You Zhiyuan hurriedly came back, at this time, he kept asking for directions on the road, and only then did he find the old road here, and he just happened to enter this area.
In such a chaotic world, two people from the south and north of the world can still meet in a place like Bashu, and both of them can't help but have some sighs. Because the predecessor of Dao Yu was in the Momen, although he did not focus on force, he was also a member of the high-level, You Zhiyuan immediately asked him about the life and death and whereabouts of Princess Qishan and others.
However, the old Dao didn't know much more about this than him.
After that, You Zhiyuan took the old road and wandered around this area. Looking around, the old man asked suspiciously, "What are you doing here?" ”
You Zhiyuan said: "Don't hide it from our predecessors, we built a factory here to make carriages on the track and chariots used on the battlefield for the soldiers in front......
The old man said: "I have also seen that kind of carriage, even if it is just one, I am afraid it will take a lot of manpower, how much can you make here?" Where can it come in handy? As for the chariot, not to mention, a chariot needs many experienced carpenters, blacksmiths, and also needs to use a clever Yanshi to instruct, in the past, used in the chariot in the army, after each vehicle is completed, the Yanshi manufactured needs to engrave the name on it, but there are unqualified, it is necessary to ask for guilt, a place like this, built casually, where did so many skilled Yanshi come from? And how can quality be guaranteed? ”
You Zhiyuan said: "The predecessors didn't know that Generalissimo Ning invented a way of operation called assembly line, and after designing the drawings, each part was formulated with standards, disassembled, and sent to different factories for manufacturing. In each workshop, only one or two of them need to be completed, and then the parts manufactured in the rear are transported here for assembly. After the standard is set, each part can be replaced with each other, just like there are several unqualified ones, and the impact is not too great. In the process of assembly, the same group of people only need to complete the same process, even if they are just novices, they can quickly get on top, and many people ...... Well, the Generalissimo called them workers...... We all recruited here on an ad hoc basis and started working after a few days of training. ”
Looking at the old road, I saw that in one of the factories, the two parts that were transported into it through the rails were combined under the work of the workers who kept repeating the same action, and after a small car was piled up, they were immediately pushed to the next factory. In the past, a group of Yanshi and craftsmen with a considerable level worked together to create a chariot, but at this time, a large number of ordinary people who had been temporarily recruited and had been exposed to the art of wooden armor before worked together to complete a large number of chariots of the same style, and most of the Yanshi who were invited were just patrolling around, inspecting, and occasionally giving pointers.
You Zhiyuan sighed: "Seniors, I'm afraid the times are really different, in the past, every thing created by the organ master and Yan master was unique, and it was their own hard work and pride, but now, according to this new way, this kind of mass production will be more and more tools that can be used by people." Farmers also began to build factories everywhere in this way, and every farm tool in the past was completed by the best local craftsmen and carpenters, and farm carts and water wheels were built by farmers who went to various villages one by one to help build them. Now, at the initiative of the Generalissimo, the method of specifying standards is also being adopted, and then parts are manufactured in each locality and sent to the places where they are needed for assembly. There are also many businessmen who see this opportunity and rush to provide them with the opportunity to recruit people and manufacture parts. ”
The old man frowned: "But, forget the rest, how to solve this kind of thing?" The best ironwork is the result of the time spent by a good blacksmith......"
You Zhiyuan said with a smile: "The predecessors don't know, but the iron that comes out of Yueling now is far better than the effect achieved by ordinary blacksmiths after thousands of tempers. In the past, everyone knew that it was true, but only knew that the quality of the steel after 100 exercises was much better than that of ordinary iron, but they didn't know the reason inside, but now the Daomen has found out the reason through the means of 'chemistry', and now the iron produced in large quantities on the side of Yueling, even if it cannot reach the level of '100 refining', but it has the quality of more than 50 refining. ”
The old road is moved, there are seven refining, thirty refining, fifty refining, seventy refining, and one hundred refining levels, ordinary people and low-level soldiers can use, but it is equivalent to the quality of about seven refining steel, although thirty refining is also very common, but it is often the weapon used by the generals, the weapons used by the Jianghu people with a certain amount of silver, as for the seventy or so practice, it can already be called a treasure knife, a sword, and the real "hundred refining" is very rare.
If the quality of steel of about fifty refining can really be popularized in large quantities, the impact on people's lives will be very huge, and many tools and instruments that were previously only available to mechanics and wood armor artists can also be popularized in large quantities.
Raising his head and looking at the surrounding factories, at this moment, he had an inexplicable feeling, feeling that he was really old, and it had only been many years, and he had already felt that this era was ...... I can't keep up!
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In the depths of the mountains, there are clangling sounds everywhere.
The master of the medicine mirror walked between the factories, and occasionally, he would stop and look at the sewage flowing down the ditch, and bow his head and groan.
Blast furnace ironmaking and steel burning have begun to have a more and more far-reaching impact on life in the south, but around these blast furnaces, sewage flows sideways, and dead trees are gradually increasing. Although some Taoists are stepping up their research on the use of Xuan Qi, the use of Fu Gong to mobilize Xuan Qi is still only an auxiliary nature, and it still cannot solve the problem of pollution.
If it is other people, naturally they will not care too much about these, a lot of steel needs to be used on the battlefield, and many people come to buy it, seeing that high-quality steel will have a more and more far-reaching impact on the people, and some negative effects are nothing.
However, Taoism is more important than other schools of thought, and the way of balance with nature is more and more important, although many young Taoists are more and more attracted by "chemistry" and have long disdained the old ideas, but as the older generation in Taoism, it is inevitable that there will be some sighs after all.
If we can find a sustainable method of applying Xuan Qi on a large scale and using Xuan Huo, we may be able to solve these problems, but at present, the application of the Fu Qi technique is still too superficial, and in addition to the Fu Qi technique, there is no controllable means to use the Xuan Qi for the time being.
That's all there is to it...... He thought to himself.
Entering a canyon, where many elites gathered, Wu Yunmei, the wife of the Heavenly Master of the Zhengyi Sect, walked towards him: "Uncle Cui." ”
Cui Yongkun asked, "How is it going?" ”
Wu Yunmei said a little helplessly: "Ning Gongzi's request is really beyond our ability, it has taken a lot of time to create a prototype of a Xuanwu gun, and it still takes many famous craftsmen, Seiko Meticulous Research, and Careful Crafts." 5,000 basalt guns, completed in three or five months...... Isn't that impossible? ”
Cui Yongkun muttered: "Of course, it is impossible to build one by one, and we can only use the method of assembly operation, first build a complete set of equipment, and then continue to produce ......."
"We think so too, but the time is still too short, at present, all the people who can be mobilized have been transferred first, but, although there are some ink people to help, but there are still some technical means that cannot be solved, and those ink people can't do anything."
"Is there nothing that can be done?" Cui Yongkun couldn't help but have a headache, the task sent by Ning Jiang this time was too difficult, and the people sent here said that the matter was very serious, as if if it could not be successful, the whole of China would perish.
Wu Yunmei thought for a while and said: "Those ink masters said that if there are the old-timers of the Mo Sect, there may be a way to solve these problems, just in terms of the principle and application of the technique of the wooden armor mechanism, there should be no one in the world who can beat him at present, and the use of special substances to make the coordination between the mechanism and the Xuan Qi is also his strength." ”
"Daoist?" Cui Yongkun said helplessly, "Momen in the north, I don't know what kind of situation it is now, I heard that even Princess Shanshan may have been killed, where are we going to find the Daoist Daoist?" ”
After thinking about it, he continued: "That's it, I can only go through Qin Sanxia's side first to help find and contact the Daoist people." The parts that can be completed should be completed quickly, and if they can't be completed, they should find other ways while looking for someone...... Hopefully it will be in time. ”
Raising his head, he looked around, in the distance, the fire was rushing, the black smoke was billowing out, and the busy people seemed to be unable to find time to rest. There are cranes descending from the mountainside, horse-drawn carriages galloping along the tracks, steel, cannon barrels...... And so on and so forth.
Further south, across the Linghai, the "One Piece" that is still under construction, because of the outbreak of war, the side of the mountain needs more elites to build the mysterious thing called the Xuanwu Gun, and is temporarily in a semi-stagnant state, although so, the keel that has been completed for a long time, coupled with the skeleton of the steel and iron mesh, has made it look powerful......