Old wood is a talent, really a talent.

Zhang Hongbin gave him a month to master the three techniques, and it only took him fifteen days to complete the arrangement. Then, in just a month and a half, he organized people to complete the three designs on the drawings, and asked Zhang Hongbin to come to check the samples.

In view of Zhang Hongbin's special status, these samples were naturally carefully checked several times before they were allowed to come and see them after confirming that there were no quality problems. Otherwise, if something suddenly happens during the trial and causes him to be injured, it will not be good news for anyone.

Zhang Hongbin didn't expect that the old wood would take out the sample so quickly.

After thinking about it, he didn't take others there, but asked people to go to Xu's house and invite Old Man Xu over.

Old Man Xu knew that Chongzhen didn't use his modified calendar, which was a little bit of a big blow, but fortunately he wasn't disheartened. From another point of view, maybe Zhang Hongbin's side also has a little bit of something worth his attention, so he wasn't completely shocked and couldn't cheer up, right?

"What, let the old man come to see something?" The first time he entered the workshop area so openly, Xu Guangqi was a little unhappy.

Some time ago, I risked my life and was not able to enter here, but who knew that now accompanied by Zhang Hongbin, I came in openly.

The gap between the front and back is too big, which makes this person's old heart narrow, and the old man is a little complaining.

"There are some good things for you to see, and by the way, let you know about the gap between Daming and our Daqin!" Zhang Hongbin smiled.

"Joke, the Great Ming Dynasty is the Heavenly Empire, and its land is as vast as more than ten times that of your so-called Great Qin. There are millions of people with armor, and there are countless kinds of materials. In the past, it was just a light enemy, as long as Da Ming can obtain the detailed information of the Salvation Army, and face it carefully, even if ten people are exchanged for one of your Salvation Army, you will not be able to escape defeat in the end! Xu Guangqi is still hard-mouthed.

"It's true that the Ming Dynasty is very big, but let me make an analogy: a country that produces one musket a month fights against a country that produces thousands of muskets a month, who do you think will win in the end?" Zhang Hongbin asked casually.

"Da Ming is the big country that can produce thousands of firecrackers a month, and it will definitely win!" Xu Guangqi said proudly.

"Hehe, unfortunately, in terms of production efficiency, we have already left Da Ming. To put it mildly, the large steelmaking furnace you see in front of you has an output of 30 tons of steel per furnace. The purely artificial steelmaking technology of Daming is only afraid that a provincial position can be equivalent to 20 tons of qualified steel. This steelmaking furnace can make about 300 furnaces of steel a month, and it can directly smelt 9,000 tons of steel. Do you know what that means? Zhang Hongbin said playfully.

A set of full-body armor, if forged with water power, will cost about 200 catties of steel, and a half-body armor will only cost 50 catties of steel. A gun barrel only takes two pounds of steel or even less, and 9,000 tons is enough to arm a team of hundreds of thousands of people. Moreover, it is only a month's output, and this output is placed on the side of Daming, that is a year's output, and it is only the output of iron......

If Zhang Hongbin is willing to invest and directly open 100 such steel-making furnaces, the result is that the quality of Daming in terms of equipment is far behind that of the Salvation Army, not to mention, I am afraid that the output will also be far behind. The so-called war is the durability of resources, if the Ming Dynasty does not have the weapons that can be used in the first place, then this war will be dangerous. As for food, Daming lacked food but Zhang Hongbin would not lack food, corn, sweet potatoes and potatoes were popularized by Zhang Hongbin, which made Daqin not worry about famine at all.

As for the Ming Dynasty, in order to gain more wealth, grain merchants are afraid that they will not be willing to promote these grains. Only when there is a shortage of grain, can the grain they buy be sold at a good price, and even the old grain can be easily sold. At that point, a fool will promote high-yield grains, and then the price of rice and noodles will fall, isn't this cutting meat on himself?

"Are you sure you're not joking?" Xu Guangqi did not scold Zhang Hongbin for bragging, but asked very strictly.

"Old wood, it's time to open the furnace! I said, sir, don't you know it by looking at it yourself? Zhang Hongbin motioned for the wood to open the furnace to make steel.

Xu Guangqi didn't talk nonsense, just silently watched what happened in front of him. As the first furnace of molten steel was poured out and the final treatment was carried out, Xu Guangqi decisively closed his eyes, and the qiē that happened in front of him made him not see any hope for Da Ming.

No, there is still hope, even if there is more steel, what can it be, the process of making zuò guns and artillery, I'm afraid it can't be so fast, right?

"What, you've found a place to refute me?" Zhang Hongbin asked with a smile.

"The craft, the craftsmanship of making zuò firecrackers! If you can't improve this, you won't be able to increase the speed of making the zuò firebolt, even if you have more steel, right? Xu Guangqi said it frankly.

"Don't worry, don't forget that there is something else for you to see?" Zhang Hongbin pointed to the universal lathe that had begun to be commissioned.

"What is this?" Xu Guangqi pointed to the lathe and asked.

"Boss, you look at it, now it's a step-by-step demonstration for you, if it's formal, it's more than a dozen units operating together, each of which is responsible for a process, and the speed can be greatly improved." Zhang Hongbin said with a smile.

Subsequently, under the command of Lao Mu, the lathe smoothly grinded a steel rod made of abrasives into a steel pipe, and at the same time grinded rifling in it. A series of treatments and installations have also been carried out outside, and if it weren't for the time spent on replacing special equipment, I am afraid that it would take less than half an hour to be able to make a torch.

Of course, this kind of lathe is currently using a steam engine, and it is also the third type of equipment that Zhang Hongbin showed Xu Guangqi. As for the coking equipment, it was not shown, after all, Xu Guangqi was not a person from Daqin.

"What's this?" Xu Guangqi pointed to the steam engine.

"It's called a steam engine, and it's a machine that uses steam as power to operate, whether it's used to drive large ships to sail, or to drive grinding discs, looms, or so on. Now it's driving the lathe to move, otherwise how do you think the lathe has so much power to bring the barrel out so quickly? Zhang Hongbin said confidently.

When Xu Guangqi heard this, his whole person became decadent.

He knew that the rise of Great Qin was inevitable, the man in front of him was too terrifying, and he had mastered too many mysterious things. I'm afraid that even Westerners can't have such advanced technology. As for Da Ming, that's even less to say.

Sure enough, as he said, the total production capacity can't keep up, so make up for it with production efficiency and production quality?

At this moment, Xu Guangqi was confused, after all, his worldview had been destroyed too much on this day.

Zhang Hongbin, on the other hand, was very happy, just because he knew that the most basic industrialization was about to be born in his own hands. The only thing to worry about is the side effects of industrialization. But it's reassuring that the biggest trouble won't be him, but Da Ming.

The biggest losers were the merchants of the Ming Dynasty, especially the cloth merchants. According to their habits, they are only afraid of a war between Great Qin and Great Ming, but there is no way to avoid it.