Chapter 56: A Heavy Reward
With the beginning of military mobilization, the whole of Lushun was mobilized, and at this time the mobilization power of the emerging military group could be reflected......
In addition to the Thunder Division, the young and strong men of Tunpu were all drawn out to form three reserve battalions, stationed in Lushun, Nanguan and Jinzhou, and the reserve equipment was distributed, and the factories, craftsmen, and private schools were mobilized to form a convoy, this time Yang Bo poured all the military, logistics, organization, and wealth of Lushun into the three places, and prepared to lay a foothold in Fuzhou, and the victory was as expected, firmly controlling the Tartar slaves in the southern four guards, so that they would not have the opportunity to plunder south and strengthen themselves, if they failed, I am afraid that the original five-year plan to dominate Liaodong will need to be postponed to 10 years.
During this time, Yang Bo was extremely busy, the conference meeting continued, just like rushing to the field, and the ministries were even more so, all kinds of materials, equipment, armaments, etc., everything was complicated, everyone had something to do, Xiao Yulan of the Ministry of Commerce complained a few times, a large amount of silver flowed out, she even signed to the soft, the Ministry of Participation under Yang Bo's urging, finally hastily issued the first Magna Carta of Lushun, if Yang Bo had not given them a deadline, I was afraid that they would have been arguing in the hall of the Ministry of Participation.
Yang Bo still felt very excited, although this Magna Carta was nothing more than a castrated Magna Carta, but in any case, this bill of great commemorative significance was finally introduced, and all the elders and villagers signed it, leaving Yang Bo.
In addition to signing the Magna Carta, Yang Bo also had the important task of giving a speech to the Senate, hoping to persuade them to fully support the military operation because of the huge financial expenditure involved. For the sake of this war, Yang Bo even emptied his family......
However, to Yang Bo's disappointment, everyone raised their hands to agree to this military operation. Yang Bo thinks that if his feet are also counted, his pass rate is definitely more than 200%, even higher than that of Jin Sanfat in later generations, Yang Bo's depression can be imagined, you must know that he has also prepared a lot of rhetoric, ready to fight the crowd.
Don't they know that this decision is tied to their future glory and disgrace? I painstakingly set up the Ministry of Political Affairs, did I end up with a vase ornament? Yang Bo looked around at these and his face turned red. The guys who raised their hands secretly sighed in their hearts.
Yang Bo was powerless to change the current situation for a while, and he prudently submitted a plan to the Ministry of Political Affairs to buy bones. Quite simply, Yang Bo believes that the era of fighting alone is over, that the Tower of Babel could not be built in a day, and that industrialization could not be implemented with a plan. He needs talent. A large number of talents to solve all kinds of technical problems, the science and technology of this era has always relied on experience, no one wants to explore its principles, formulate standards, Yang Bo has always believed that imagination is more important than knowledge, he is willing to spend a lot of money to buy these imagination......
At the top of the plan to buy bones is the bearing, and Yang Bo offered a reward of as high as 5,000 taels of silver. Bearing is an important basic component of all kinds of mechanical equipment, and its accuracy, performance, life and reliability play a decisive role in the accuracy, performance, life and reliability of the main engine. Bearings are one of the most important components in contemporary machinery and equipment. Its main function is to support the mechanical rotating body, in order to reduce the mechanical load friction coefficient of the equipment in the transmission process, in the mechanical products, the bearing belongs to the high-precision product, not only needs the comprehensive support of mathematics, physics and many other disciplines, but also needs material science, heat treatment technology, precision machining and measurement technology, numerical control technology and effective numerical methods and powerful computer technology and many other disciplines to serve, so the bearing is a product that represents the national scientific and technological strength, with Yang Bo's optimistic estimate, Due to the success of cement research and development, Yang Bo has been considering laying a cement road between Jinzhou and Lushun, and bearings can make the carriage lighter and faster, and timeliness is particularly important for a warlord who controls a wide land.
In second place is the gear, which seems simple, but in fact has a high technical content. A sign of industrial society, gears in the modern sense originated from the involute of gears proposed by the mathematician Euler in the seventeenth century. With the involute gear and the basic law of tooth profile meshing, high-speed gear transmission is possible, without involute gear, there can be no high-speed transmission, there can be no gearbox, and without gearbox, industrialization can not efficiently use any kind of powerful kinetic energy, handicraft workshop manufacturing gear is not difficult, the difficulty lies in the gear matching tolerance required by Yang Bo, all the things in the plan must be unified materials and processes, requiring complete standardized manufacturing, If Yang Bo's requirements cannot be met by handicraft manufacturing, Yang Bo doesn't care if they can make it, what he cares about is that their eyes are attracted by a large amount of honorarium, and that's enough.
The third place is the measuring and testing tools, including high-precision rulers, microscopes, balances, hydrometers, these things are the basis of modern science and technology, although they are all gadgets, but without them can not popularize weights and measures, he described a little in the bounty of the principle and function of the tray balance, quantitative research needs to weigh, weighing is inseparable from the balance, and the first balance to be used in chemical quantification was in the eighteenth century in Blake, England, Yang Bo's requirements are also a little harsh, he requires the balance must be able to weigh the weight of the gasAs for how they find a way to study the quantitative problem of gases, Yang Bo can't manage too much.
The bounty is 3,000 silver, and in fourth place is rifling, spiral rifling, which can be said to be the soul of the barrel, and the role of rifling is to give the warhead the ability to rotate, so that the warhead can still maintain a given direction after being discharged. The special forces company of the Iron Fist Brigade is equipped with a straight flintlock pistol under the auspices of Yang Bo, although the range has increased a lot, but there are many problems that have been fed back, the most difficult thing is that the front loading gun is slow, and the barrel tolerance created by the handicraft workshop cannot be solved, resulting in the lead bullet mold of this company is a person, and it can not be confused, otherwise it is possible that the lead bullet will not be knocked in, this problem prevents Yang Bo from the idea of large-scale installation, Yang Bo tried to solve the tolerance problem on the one hand, on the other hand, he also hoped to solve the spiral rifling, and directly transition to the Mini gun, The use of rifled guns is documented in the fifteenth century. But it was also the difficulty of the manufacturing process, which was not popularized until the eighteenth century, and Yang Bo did not want spiral rifling. What he wants is standardized manufacturing with controlled tolerances, and with standardization, it means that the barrel size of each gun is within an acceptable range......
The next bounty is a variety of things, including military and agriculture. industry, etc., such as how to pull out a roll of wire, a spinning machine as described by Jenny Machine. There are also converter steelmaking, there are foot-operated threshing machines, and there are canned food bounties for the preservation of food in the army, although Yang Bo knows that qualified cans cannot be made without tinplate. Not to mention that even if there is tinplate. Molding, cutting and other machinery is not able to be manufactured in this era, as well as papermaking, the paper used in Lushun is very rough, Yang Bo is looking forward to using soft toilet paper to rub his buttocks in his lifetime, especially for people with hemorrhoids, for which he generously offered a reward of 3,000 silver, and at the same time the reward is also to solve the problem of cigarette paper ignition rate. This technique was not difficult to overcome, so the amount was cut down to five hundred taels of silver.
Another big prize is glass. At present, the product quality of Lushun glass factory is too poor and there is no competitiveness, all kinds of impurity bubbles have not been able to solve, resulting in a low price, as long as the bubbles and permeability can be solved, the microscope with a high reward can be easily manufactured, if you meet a heart, maybe you can keenly find this repeated reward opportunity, right? There is a very important extension of the glass bounty, that is, the manufacture of flat glass, Liaodong during the Xiaoice River period needs a large number of greenhouses to ensure the yield of crops, with flat glass can completely solve this problem, want to make flat glass needs a lot of mechanical equipment, at present, according to Yang Bo know that there are calendering, rollers, vertical traction, flat pulling, etc., as for what float process does not have to think too much, want to get the bounty, the requirements for machinery are very high, but if someone can really design it, Then he can also get the bounty related to the pressing machinery later, which is the press used to press sugar.
There are many things that are closely related to people's livelihood, such as matches, gas lamps, honeycomb stoves, refractory bricks, large chemical fertilizers, small sewing needles, mirrors, as well as fast food such as instant noodles and starch foods for improving the army's food, sealing gaskets used in various machinery, color dyeing and printing of textiles, and so on.
Yang Bo even once listed the steam engine, but after thinking about it for a long time, it was canceled, the principle of the steam engine is very simple, but it is not easy to get a high-efficiency steam engine, the principle of this bounty Yang Bo has mentioned it slightly, although it seems simple, but the technology, skills, experience, and scientific principles behind these things are very rich and huge, and it is not too late to put forward the idea of a steam engine after the three places of Lushun began to have this atmosphere of study.
This era is the age of great navigation!
The colonization and trade of Southeast Asia attracted the attention of European countries, especially the Philippines, the Malay Archipelago, Spain, Portugal, the Netherlands, various forces mixed, although Britain was half a step late, but it had the last laugh, the Battle of the English Channel can be called one of the most important naval battles in the 16th century, and laid the foundation for British domination of the sea, Spain's invincible armada hit the head with a cannon of sails, Yang Bo had the heart to get a piece of the pie in it, but because of the lack of power, he went to the place that upheld the law of the jungle, Although the water camp is still very weak, Yang Bo brought them a more advanced concept, that is, to continuously reduce the height of the superstructure for better stability, and at the same time to continuously increase the size of the ship to carry more naval guns. This makes the seaworthiness of the sailing ship better and better and the firepower is more and more fierce, this concept in the sixteenth and even seventeenth centuries for the improvement of the warship is dominant, the Invincible Armada has seven warships of more than 1,000 tons, and the warship of more than 500 tons is already the most common requirement, and the largest Fufu ship of the Lushun Water Camp is only two masts, about two hundred materials, converted into tons of up to one hundred tons, this largest Fuzhou ship is used by Chen Bilian as a flagship, the others are more than a hundred warships, as for other small ships can be ignored, The Ming Dynasty's maritime ban policy lasted for more than 200 years, Zheng He's treasure ship had been forgotten at the end of the Ming Dynasty, starting from Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang, Hongwu four years of the edict "coastal people are not allowed to go to sea without permission" during the Jiajing period, Shizong ordered: "It is not allowed to make large ships with more than two masts, and all illegal large ships will be destroyed." The local governments of various coastal provinces have also issued instructions: "Those who privately build brigs and go to sea must catch and cure them," and "those who check the sea ships but have two masts will be caught." ”
Looking at the whole Ming Dynasty, there is no more consciousness and determination to develop sea power than Yang Bo, although his strength is not enough, but he has a super vision, the sail battleship has not yet entered its golden age, Yang Bo has been making technical reserves for the steam ironclad battleships that only appeared in the eighteenth century, so this reward, Yang Bo hopes to get the blueprints of the most advanced Galen battleship in this era, this reward seems harsh, in fact, as long as people who often run Southeast Asia, Macao, and Japan, as long as they have the opportunity to contact Franco, Hongyi, the people of the church, have a chance to receive a bounty of three hundred taels of gold.
There is no doubt that the elders and villagers of the Ministry of Participation are once again eager to raise their feet to express their support, even if Yang Bo reiterates that the total reward this time has reached nearly 100,000 silver!
Just when Yang Bo was disappointed, someone finally stood up and expressed his objection...... (To be continued......)