Chapter 326: Casting and Forging Workshop
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Wearing a wicker-knitted hard hat and a blue overalls, Conderbe was standing in front of the hot roll mill in the hot forging workshop. Four years ago, Kang Peide was still a non-Confucian student who was obsessed with the dream of the imperial examination, but today, he will never think about the imperial examination again.
At this time, the hot steel column that had just been forged from the roll mill had been transported to the rail car, and two workers wearing wicker hats stepped forward and pulled the rail car over.
The sneering round steel pillar was thicker than a thigh, and the surface of the steel column had changed from bright red to dark red. Ignoring the heat, Comped took out his nearsighted glasses from the upper pocket of his overalls and leaned forward, he wanted to see with his own eyes.
The steel column slowly rotated on the supporting rollers, and Kang Peide took the magnifying glass handed over and carefully looked at the rolled and forged steel column, if it weren't for the steel column still being hot, Kang Peide's face would have been pasted on the steel column. In this era, there is no modern scientific and technological means such as ultrasonic flaw detection, and it can only be carried out through the naked eye for surface inspection, if there is a problem with the surface inspection, it at least shows that the forging process must continue to improve.
Unfortunately, Kangpeide's eyesight is really bad, which is all caused by the night reading of Bible history. His eyesight is poor, and even with a weapon like a magnifying glass in his hand, he still can't see clearly. Director Kang shook his head, so he had to hand the magnifying glass to Huang Wangcai next to him:
"Wangcai, come and see, how is the forging this time?"
"Looks good. Director Kang, you see, at least there are no obvious flaws on the surface. Huang Wangcai's eyesight is known as the top, not to mention the high-tech artifact of the magnifying glass, he has enough experience, the steel pillar turned down, Huang Wangcai did not find anything, of course, he did not find any flaws, so he replied truthfully.
Huang Wangcai is also an old qualification among Mao Geng's disciples, and now he is a middle-level cadre in the factory, with dozens of people under him, and he also got a special title from Mao Geng's head - technician.
Technician Huang said yes, it should be a spectrum, Kang Peide nodded, but he was still a little uneasy. muttered in his mouth:
"I hope there won't be any defects in it, this cylindrical forging billet is used to process the barrel of the cannon, even a small sand hole, it will explode." Kang Peide inserted his glasses back into his jacket pocket, then patted Huang Wangcai's shoulder, and said, "Wangcai, if you pass this time, then it's good, that's good." You've been working hard for a while. Alas! For this billet, I have been tossing for more than three months, and if there are any more defects, Mr. Lin will start a fire, and you and I will not be happy. ”
As soon as Huang Wangcai heard Kang Peide talk about Mr. Lin, his confidence was vented for no reason, this Lin Lishi scolded people at every turn, and trained people like training his grandson. Kang Peide and himself have been trained by Lin Lishi a lot, and Lin Lishi doesn't care whether Kang Peide and Huang Wangcai are disciples of Mao Geng, and they are not merciless at all. Kang Peide is worried that if he fails again this time, Lin Lishi will definitely be scolded again.
Huang Wangcai couldn't help but complain:
"I said that the head of the factory, if you want to talk about our teacher Mao Tetou, of course, that is convincing. Compared to Chief Mao, Lin Lishi is a fart! Why did Lin Lishi train people indiscriminately without asking for reason! Speaking of which, this casting and forging factory was built by us, and the time was only a little more than half a year, and when we came here, the plant was only halfway built, and we began to install the machine. We didn't take a break during the Chinese New Year, worked overtime day and night, and finally in the first month, the barrel blank of the 75mm cannon was forged. Today's 100 mm gun barrel is a little more difficult than the 75 mm gun barrel! If you want me to say, it would take more than half a year to successfully forge and roll. Even if this forging part is not up to par today, so what! It's no longer normal. It's easy to say, but it's not easy to do. ”
Wangcai's complaints, Kang Peide actually agreed, Kang Peide also complained in his heart, his development in the Mao Group is not as good as many later generations, such as Yang Zhe , Fan Biaoyong, not to mention Tan Xiaochun, Yi Bojun and the Zhu family brothers, not even as good as Tan Wangdi. The position of the director of Dongrui Foundry Forge sounds good, but the problem is that whether it is casting or forging, it is bitter, tired and dirty, he is a Confucian student, and he is knowledgeable, and he throws Yang Zhe and his ilk eight streets, but he only leads the hard work and dirty work, which is really embarrassing!
"Alas! I don't blame Mr. Lin, Mr. Lin is also in a hurry, and his temper has become more violent. I heard that there was going to be a big battle with the Jin soldiers soon, and the head of Mao was also looking forward to building a 100 mm cannon as soon as possible, so that he would be more sure to fight the Jin soldiers. ”
Complaining to complaining, Kangpeide's consciousness is a little higher after all, and he understands the importance of artillery for Sakhalin.
Well, everyone hopes to build a large-caliber cannon as soon as possible, but in fact, Huang Wangcai is not like this! With high-powered artillery, at least Dongrui Town is safer.
But Huang Wangcai remembered one more thing, which was another credit to the foundry:
"Forget it, don't mention it. However, what about the casting of mortar shells last time! To be able to cast successfully is definitely a great achievement. The boss has not yet discussed the reward for meritorious deeds, if you want me to say, the factory master should be promoted. Lin Lishi's guy not only has no reward, but he is not satisfied with this at every turn, that is not qualified, he only knows how to scold me and others, so that people can be convinced! ”
was complaining, when a terrifying voice suddenly sounded behind him:
"Oh, Huang Wangcai, you've got a lot of skills! If you are not convinced, you can talk about it, the casting of mortar shells, how much of a role you played in it, and there are several key problems that you solve! ”
This sucks! Huang Wangcai actually just habitually complained a few words behind his back, and if he said it in person, he would give ten guts, and Huang Wangcai would not dare to confront Lin Lishi slightly. Huang Wangcai broke out in a cold sweat, and said in his heart my mother! Isn't this a cheap mouth! In fact, although Mr. Lin in front of him treats his subordinates simply and rudely, he does have goods in his stomach, and he doesn't know how Mr. Lin's brain grows, why is it so good! When encountering any problem, Mr. Lin casually says that it is an idea, and then it may solve the big problem. At this point, Huang Wangcai had to be convinced.
"Oh, damn it! Damn it! Subordinates shouldn't chew their tongues here, to convince Qi, our foundry up and down is not unconvinced by Mr. Lin, Mr. Lin's - that high mountain is up, we can't catch up. ”
Lin Lishi also knows that there are not a few people who complain about themselves, which is also the inevitable result of their high pressure. But they are just complaining secretly behind their backs, and they are just addicted, so what! Is it a good thing!
In later generations, Lin Lishi was a small boss of a small iron factory, and under the policy of "shutting down and transferring", he committed crimes against the wind, and both "high energy consumption" and "fake and shoddy" accounted for - collecting scrap iron from small furnaces to make steel, and the products were counterfeit steel bars from large factories. Lin Lishi claims that his own steel bars and large factory steel bars have a fight, but counterfeit and shoddy is fake and shoddy, Lin Lishi's steel bar quality is unstable after all, and the fines and business suspension notices received are unknown. Later, the steel industry as a whole was weak, and the space for survival became smaller and smaller, so Boss Lin went to Malaysia, ready to try his luck internationally, of course, it was also fooled by a Chinese businessman in Malaysia. On a whim, Lin Lishi inspected the scrap steel market in Malaysia and thought it was no fun, and then returned to China in despair, but he never thought that he would take a magical flight, and a guy traveled to the Song Dynasty.
Based on the need to survive and develop in the cruel competition, Lin Lishi has cultivated some face-changing skills. Boss Lin has a face when dealing with officials, and he has a face on his subordinates. When he saw the officials of the relevant departments, he said that Lin Lishi was a slave and a servant, but he definitely did not do anything less when he was bribing and so on, and when he looked back, he was very strict with his subordinates, and he would scold him at every turn, so his employees could not work for long in him, which was also one of the reasons why Lin Lishi had a difficult business in later generations.
However, after arriving in the Great Song Dynasty, Lin Lishi was like a fish in water, smelting iron and steel, and his own ability was really not enough in later generations, but when he arrived in the Great Song Dynasty, he became the number one expert. Furthermore, working under Mao Geng, Mao Geng is a very easy-going character, Lin Lishi doesn't need to nod his head, and the biggest advantage of the Great Song Dynasty in this era is that the disciples respect the teacher to the point of blind obedience, and his subordinates will not fight for human rights with you, so Lin Lishi's feeling is that he suddenly jumped from the turtle boss in later generations to the top entrepreneur in the world's top five.
"Less nonsense! You, Huang Wangcai, will have officials from the imperial court to visit, you arrange it, prepare the materials, and when the visiting officials arrive, you will demonstrate the forging of the cannon billet again from beginning to end, understand! ”
Huang Wangcai naturally nodded yes.
Lin Lishi also knew that Huang Wangcai was a little more talkative, and his work was quite reliable. After the explanation, he asked Kang Depei to go to receive the visiting group together.
The visiting group composed of Zhao Lu, Han Yanxuan, Lu Jiuyuan and Meng Shu arrived at the foundry and forging factory after a while.
"Your Highness, ladies and gentlemen, please see, this is the railroad track, and across the two rails is the train."
In the open space next to the foundry, the group saw rows of wood neatly arranged in the distance. There were two iron bars across the wood, and the iron bars were shiny and shiny, with a cold light, comparable to the bright blades.
Mao Geng waved his hand, and there was movement immediately.
Meng Shu saw an iron frame car with four iron wheels coming from a distance, saying that it was an iron frame car, except for four wheels, it was like a shelf, and there were two people dancing on it and not knowing what they were doing. waited until he got closer, only to see that the two were shaking an iron bar, one after another, which can be described as a tacit understanding. Meng Shu immediately realized that the two of them were shaking the iron bar, they should be driving the car to move, and the car was not moving slowly.
After Mao Geng's explanation, Meng Shu knew that this was a rail car driven by manpower, and it was not a problem to load hundreds of catties on this kind of car.
Liu Wenbin added on the side that if there is a war to transport grain and grass, just this kind of human-powered rail car, with one hundred and ten vehicles, can meet the needs of tens of thousands of soldiers for grain and grass.
Meng Shu complained in his heart, this rail is slippery, of course, it saves effort, the question is, how much does it cost to lay this railroad!
After a while, another car drove up from a distance, this time looking like the tractor I had seen yesterday, with a sonorous sound and black smoke from the chimney, except for the different wheels, which were iron wheels with sides.
After listening to Mao Geng's explanation, Meng Shu realized that this was a gas rail car for the test, and the future rail car would be driven by steam. The total length of the railroad tracks laid here is only 500 meters, and the rickshaw and gas car will be tested first, and the steam locomotive will be used when it is officially put into use.
"This track is good, it's just too expensive." Meng Shu began to comment: "I heard that the cement rail built on the Kra Isthmus is good, it saves much money than the railroad, and it is still easy to use, the steam rail car is speeding on the cement rail, speeding away, Meng thinks that the cement rail may as well be promoted in the Great Song Dynasty, as for this rail, it is simply too luxurious, and the Great Song Dynasty does not have so much money to burn." ”
Among the people in the Great Song Dynasty, only Zhao Shu disagreed with Meng Shu's words, this was naturally Yu Yunlu's science popularization, as for Lu Jiuyuan and Han Yanxuan, they felt that Meng Shu simply said his heart today, damn! When the Great Song Dynasty has not yet reached the point where there is too much money to spend, it is not a waste of money to use iron to build roads!
Liu Wenbin just opened his mouth and said: "Actually, although the railway was built with a larger investment, it was still very cost-effective to use-", but was interrupted by Mao Geng.
Mao Geng smiled and said:
"The imperial court doesn't need railroad tracks, so this one is crossed out."
Meng Shuxin said, this is about the same! I don't want to slaughter people like this. As a subordinate of the former East Palace, Meng Shu is now a celebrity in front of the new emperor, Mao Geng feels that the process of promoting the railway in history has been quite tortuous, and it is still a matter of course. Besides, the current Great Song Dynasty is indeed not generous enough to afford to build a railway.
"Ladies and gentlemen, now let's go and visit the process of producing cannons, and after seeing them, you may understand that building cannons is a very complicated thing at all."
As soon as they heard that they could immediately observe the production process of the cannon, the crowd immediately became energetic.
Lin Lishi originally asked Kang Peide to prepare to roll two I-beams of rails, so that the Da Song gang could see and understand, but the rail project seems to be on the construction schedule of the Da Song Dynasty for the time being. Obviously, including Zhao Luan, their enthusiasm for visiting the cannon manufacturing is already unstoppable, since this is the case, there is no need for them to observe the rolling of the rails, Lin Lishi originally wanted to show off.
A group of people came to the hot casting and forging workshop.
A billet was clamped by two iron clamps hanging high in the air, and then sent to the iron plate of a tall machine, this time, the introduction was made by the director of the factory surnamed Kang, who is said to be a disciple of Mao Geng, a former Confucian student.
nbsp; Kang Peide called this machine "forging machine", and after a long time, Meng Shu realized that it was originally a machine for striking iron, and according to Director Kang, the billet for making cannons must be forged vigorously and repeatedly before they can be made into forging billets and sent to the next process for processing.
Turning it over, repeating it, at first glance it was full of interest, but after watching it for a long time, I realized that it was similar to blacksmith striking iron, but it was just a different machine to forge. Hearing that it was going to be forged for an hour or two, the onlookers of the Great Song Dynasty and the courtiers immediately lost their interest.
Fortunately, Huang Wangcai was quite smart, and the original forged billet was heated back to the furnace, and once again let it go to the roller machine.
"Ladies and gentlemen, this is a roller mill, and after the billet has been forged, the cross-section of the billet is actually a polygon, and what you see has been rolled once, so it looks like a cylinder. The blank forged in that hot forging machine is inconvenient for processing cannon barrels, and it also has to be rolled. This is actually a kind of hot forging method, after this process, the material of the blank has been further improved, the shape is almost a cylinder, after cutting off the waste before and after, and then after heat treatment, you can enter the next processing process. ”