Chapter 118: Everything is ready

The turmoil that has been brewing for more than half a month has finally calmed down, and this is an imperfect and irreproducible non-violent and non-cooperative underlying movement, and this success will make them pay the price of countless blood in the future. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info

Chen Jian's tacit support and instigation, the inferior means of shock and pressure of the old people of Xiacheng, and the scarcity and irreplaceability of the population are the prerequisites for success this time.

They shattered the old city of the clan and the blood nobility, and built a new one, seemingly invisibly, and in the near future, the two sides will merge into this city, inseparable, and strengthen the cohesion of the city.

The basis of classical compromise politics stems from the small number of people and the fact that war requires the participation of all the people of the city, just like the all-out war in the industrial age a long time later, the state or the prototype of the state needs to mobilize all forces, so that the people at the bottom have the basis to fight for their rights. Of course, if this is a human being, it cannot be a non-human slave in legal theory, even if the composition of the clansmen's political deliberation in the rest of the cities is far greater than the dictatorship of the chief, but Xia Cheng has expanded the scope of people, because Chen Jian believes that people are always more capable of working than slaves.

Military service may seem like a dutyless obligation for those workshop workers, but it lays the foundation for their future qualifications to serve as countrymen. When the war came, the upper echelons of Xia Cheng had to give more political rights to the lower echelons in order for them to go to war, and at that time, Jian Chen could also justifiably accept them as new countrymen, otherwise he would risk offending all the old countrymen.

After the negotiation between the two sides was reached, the striking workshop workers were collectively whipped, rested for two days, and the workshop workers officially resumed work, elected representatives of each workshop, walked into the workshop with the joy of victory, and began a new round of endless labor.

The workshop has regained its vitality, and it has also made the people of Xiacheng truly feel how great the power of the human heart is.

On the first day after the resumption of work, the output of winter clothes was 30% more than before, and the workshop workers of the Dyeing and Spinning Division took the initiative to work longer.

Working for oneself is always faster than working for others. Originally, the winter clothes they produced had nothing to do with themselves, but now they produce them in preparation for what they wear.

After the reduction of the daily fixed wage and the increase of piece-rate wages, more semi-full-time workers need to be counted by piecework, but the daily labor motivation of workshop workers has also increased, and the overall number of semi-full-time workers has increased much compared with the efficiency of the separated part-time workers.

The daily income of the workshop workers is more than before, but the supply and marketing department is not big, because Chen Jian asked the supply and marketing department to increase the price of non-essential goods, and at the same time, it gives the people of Xiacheng a certain amount of compensation.

The living standards of the people of Xiacheng have not been reduced because of the supplementary housing, and the living standards of the workshop workers have not been improved because of the increase in wages, and the supply and marketing department has not been in short supply for the time being.

In addition to this, all kinds of invisible barriers were opened, and workshop workers were allowed to use public baths, and there were free cleaning opportunities twice a month.

In the baths where people strip their clothes, there is no distinction between high and low, and it has also become a place to eliminate barriers and exchanges.

Preparations are also underway for the construction of a school for the children of the workshop workers, and the selected bright people of the workshop workers are beginning to take the lead in part-time learning to serve as teachers for the children.

The house of the workshop worker representative was also approved by Chen Jian, and the workshop workers of the Construction Division used the rest time to build it, and the buying action of the people of Xia Cheng was also launched, with little effect for the time being, but some people have relented, and the class that betrayed them will become lackeys just around the corner.

On a small island far from the headland, construction also began on a quarantine yard in which women selected from twelve workshopmen tended to the workshopmen who had been thrown onto the island. Before they were built, they were learning simple herbal uses and antipyretic methods from the Medicine Department, as well as the few treatments in Summer City.

All of this was won by the workshop workers, in fact, Chen Jian could have given them alms a long time ago, and these requests were not too excessive and did not cost much more budget. But he didn't want to, he hoped that these people could understand the difference between liberation and salvation, and that a group that dared to fight and dare to resist had the last laugh.

This is the Great River, not the Ganges; This is the city of elms, not the holy city. Don't ask for the next life, don't ask for heaven, don't ask the Buddha, don't look for the Son, only seek this life, only by your hands. There is no need to reincarnate, no need to be saved by a saint, as long as a prince will have a kind of peace.

At the end of the decade, men selected according to each workshop also began to undergo military training for one day at a time.

They will not be used as shock troops and advanced troops, but are the simplest and most easy-to-train Ge Spear phalanx infantry, mainly responsible for maintaining the stability of the front.

The black-clothed guards who trained them were amazed at their ability to cooperate, and the black-clothed guards were surprised that those who had worked in the workshop for a long time to the sound of whistles understood the advance and retreat and the left and right more easily than they had in the clan era.

However, when I think of those children in the Summer City Academy, I am a little relieved, the rigorous semi-military training in the Summer City Academy allows every child who comes out of the school to quickly integrate into the highly disciplined military life, and the workshop workers are actually the same.

The male workers who trained kept their oaths after taking the oath, and at the same time, they knew that their hard training was to give their children a chance to be human beings, so they were very hard. Some of them had no children for the time being, but they were hopeful that Ji Xia had bought a large number of female slaves from the rest of the city and would be transported to the headland.

Simple wooden sticks pretend to be spears, and dense spear formations march back and forth in the open space every nine days, and the roll call every morning has changed from a separate count to a queue count.

The ten people selected also began to learn from Jian Chen, telling those workshop workers that the reason why they took up arms was for their own interests, and that they would become slaves again without Yucheng, not for others to fight, but for themselves. By the way, mixed with the inculcation of these concepts of ancestors and ethnic groups, new ideas and old ideas began to collide, quarrel, compromise or accept, and then these people used them as a way for workshop workers to accept them to the newly trained phalanxes. When these people win the status of a countryman for themselves, this reason will be more reasonable and natural.

Yucheng regained its vitality, and it also allowed the upper class to see the power of the lower level.

In the temporary calm, Jian Chen finally asked the people of the smelting division to stop building the house, and a large number of produced heat-resistant green bricks were transported to the location of the smelting furnace selected before, and the smelting furnace was completed before the land froze.

The mold makers began to prepare a large number of molds for ploughshares, hoes, pickaxes, and other tools, and the quality of the iron produced in the first few months could not be high, so all of them should be melted into the spring plowing tools urgently needed by the farm community, and strive to prepare at least enough farm tools for the farm before March next year, which is the primary task of the entire Yucheng Smelting Division in winter.

Quenching salt and animal and vegetable oils are also in large quantities of preparations, simple stone-pressed fried soybean oil workshop is also in the farm ready to build, tomorrow the farm will be planted with soybean beans to ensure the use and consumption of oil in Yucheng, this workshop is very simple, vegetable oil is fried and squeezed out, but the first batch of oil extruded is not soybean oil, but a castor plant oil.

These wild castor beans have been known to the people here for a long time, because the seeds are poisonous, but the oil content is very high, they look like ticks on the body of cattle that are full of blood, they are very disgusting, they squeak and squeak with fire and the oil is very fragrant, but after eating three or five grains, they will be dizzy and die, and there are many people who can't bear the hunger to eat in the famine year.

Castor can also be used as a material for linen, and the oil extracted from the seeds is a natural lubricating oil, which is not easy to oxidize, not easy to dry, and is often used as a high-grade lubricating oil raw material for aerospace in the past life like whale oil.

The first batch of oil is used as lubricating oil for the workshop group next year, especially since there are no bearings at the shaft of the waterwheel, so we can only find a way to reduce the resistance, and this oil can be much stronger than animal oil.

Moreover, castor oil fried eggs can induce labor, and the tetraenoic acid synthesized with lecithin in the egg yolk will be converted into prostaglandins to promote uterine contractions, although it may cause the contraction to rupture too severely, but there is no need to consider it for the time being. Combined with forceps, it can be regarded as another way to promote population growth and fertility survival.

In addition to the production of lubricating oil, the soybean oil produced by the oil mill can be used as soap in addition to eating, and can also obtain glycerin, a by-product.

Next year, when there is more time to wait, the concentrated sulfuric acid is boiled by burning the bile alum U-shaped tube to cool the sulfuric acid and then mixed with potassium nitrate to make nitric acid, which is used as a by-product of soap, which does not need to be industrialized, and it should kill more than a dozen people if you are careful, enough for people with angina.

The remaining glycerin can be added with some spices to make some primitive skin care products such as alabaster cream, and with angina medicine, you can make a fortune, and those who can afford it must have enough land slaves, or it can also be used as a gift. It can also be regarded as using any small workshop to the limit, making high-end products as much as possible, and constantly driving and luring people in other cities to do low-end product workshops.

Of course, it is unshakable that iron smelting is the foundation, or mother, of the whole future group of workshops.

The amount of charcoal accumulation was enough for a while, and the large leather bellows had been made, and it was not yet a bellows that could be blown by pushing and pulling with a double-acting piston structure, because the carpenters did not come up with the idea of adding a two-way flap to the air outlet, so that there was no way to close the other half when half of the air was blowing.

However, they used the hundreds of years old thick trees that were all over the mountains at this time to hollow out the entire core of the tree as the shell of the wooden bellows, which is stronger than the wooden planks spliced, and the circular structure can also withstand greater wind pressure.

The leather blower cannot be used, because the wind pressure of the iron smelting blower bellows that needs to be driven by animal power is too large, and the cowhide will burst off, and the wooden structure will be more durable. Such a large bellows would probably require two cows to pull, but it is impossible to work day and night.

On the river, Chen Jian built a simple dam and aqueduct, more than six meters high three-story drop canal can make the potential energy storage power of the water in about 30 kilowatts, into kinetic energy loss of about half, mechanical loss is normal 40%, the original wooden waterwheel in Xia Cheng is estimated to be able to leave two or three percent, calculated to actually provide three or four horsepower power, but the victory is non-stop day and night, and it is impossible for the ox to do reciprocating motion.

In addition to the hydraulic machinery for blowing the wind, Chen Jian also asked the carpentry division to continue making wooden waterwheels, and as a crank hammer for smashing wool felt, Chen Jian also had to build a crushing machine to smash ore.

The ore can not be fully in contact with the carbon without crushing, and it is not conducive to the blast nor the oxygen in the carbon reduction ore, and the speed of manual smashing is too slow, so that some manpower can be saved.

The hammer was not far upstream of the smelter, connected by a canal, with ships carrying it, and the charcoal had been piled up there.

Proposed locks are also being built downstream of the canal, properly allowing the ships transporting the ore to be able to transport the ore directly to the location of the crushing hammer.

Acorn has not been idle these days, although the pottery kiln for daily necessities has been stopped, he is still responsible for firing the ventilation pipes, and he also has to cooperate with the people in the casting module and brass parts team to prepare various materials for production.

Casting molds, raw materials, blasts, crushing, refractory clay bricks, foundations, rammed earth layers, pottery pipes, simple copper pulleys, rivets, connecting rods, castor oil for lubrication, salt and oil for quenching, stone sticks for stirring pig iron, clay crucibles that may be filled with steel, pig iron remelting crucibles that are rubbed on wrought iron, calciners that may be slowly annealed in order to allow graphite to condense and soften into castable wrought iron, masons who have accumulated technology in dozens of brick kilns and charcoal kilns to simply issue arch structures, Chinese people with several years of experience in bronze smelting, Hundreds of workshop workers with enough strength calmed down the anger and gave the workshop workers hope in their hearts......

Basically, the prerequisites are basically ready, and the follow-up processes are ready regardless of whether the first ironmaking is raw, cooked, white, or gray.

Only the most important smelting furnace remained, and to the surprise of those who smelted bronze, Chen Jian built a shaft furnace and built something that had never been seen before when smelting bronze.

Blast preheating chamber of the smelting furnace.

Chen Jian told them that it was important. (To be continued.) )