The glow of the setting sun, shrouded in the snowless southern city of Zhaoqing, made this ancient city add a gorgeous shell, and it seemed to have the blessing of a certain god from heaven, so that it could survive in this chaotic world. It's a pity that this is just a visual thought, in the time and space without Ding Yi, this ancient city has been going to the Chenghua year, and it is in the competition between the Ming army and Hou Dagou.

"The flow of this Xijiang River is very demanding!" Craftsman Li happily pointed to the huge water wheels erected on the riverside for Ding Yi, and said with a smile, "This is much larger than the size we used when we were in Rongcheng." The water wheels were three erected, and the fishing boats around them were all watching from afar at the three unscrupulous "water wheels" pointing at them, and they could not hear their words from a distance, but there must have been a lot of confusion and discussion.

The water washes over the blades of the big water wheel, and in the process of rotating, the belt on the water wheel drives the much smaller iron wheel installed on the shore to run rapidly, and the thick iron shaft in the center of the iron wheel transmits this power to the workshop, so that those primitive lathes, drilling machines, and milling machines get the energy that can work.

"How's the wear and tear?" Ding Yi asked in a low voice to Craftsman Li.

Li Jiangtou was full of bamboo, and when he heard Ding Yi's words, he replied casually: "In half an hour, each joint must be filled with oil once." The most worn-out is the small wheel that is pulled by the big wheel, which has to be filled with oil every two quarters, and it has to be replaced every three days, but after it is removed, as long as the deformed iron balls inside are taken out, and after grinding, new iron balls are installed, and the tallow is injected, and it can be used again. After about ten times like this, this small wheel could not be repaired again, and had to be re-boiled......"

Ding nodded. The skills of this era are at their peak. It's not that he didn't want to make a metal machine tool, but there is no steam engine, no electricity, it really doesn't mean much, and the machining accuracy may not be much improved: "The piece of wire and the piece of steam engine, you have to grasp it." This is actually very unsettled, you have to know that there is a water army on the side of Hou Dagou of Lu Dao. ”

If the navy comes over and shoots a rocket, then the water wheel will be over immediately. And Ding Yi didn't even recruit soldiers well. How to get a water army? He still has a sea boat on Temasek's side, but the sea ship is going to sail into the Xijiang River? Such a large tonnage, let alone stranding, even if you don't mention this stubble. That tonnage alone has discovered the enemy's situation. When they went out of the water village to pull up the sails, Hou Dagou didn't know where he had gone.

"Sir, the steam engine of the Rausch train can't be ......," Li Craftsman said and pulled up his sleeves a little frustratedly, there was a red and swollen upper part of his forearm, and he complained to Ding Yi, "Are you wrong to make that pattern?" There's always hot air leaking out...... Otherwise, it will fall apart...... We tried it with silk, but no! Boil the glue out of the skin. Not at all! Wool felt barely works! You can't use all copper, right? Let's see, it's really ...... to build more water wheels A lot of steel and charcoal were wasted. It's all money......"

Ding Yi sighed, the steam engine can be practical, I don't know how many changes have been undertaken, is this considered a seedling pulling? Obviously, because Li Jiangtou and they have not experienced the transformation process of the steam engine, they don't understand the principle at all, and they only know that they can only compare Ding Yi's drawings if there is a problem.

"Let's get the one-horsepower steam engine that I drew for you earlier." Ding Yi was also very helpless, so he had to say to Li Gongtou, "Get that one-horsepower steam engine out, there's no problem, you can also understand, and then get the back one." "The one-horsepower steam engine, the watt-type double-acting steam engine, had a speed of only four to fifty revolutions per minute, while Ding Yi had previously supplied a twentieth-century train steam engine that reached 2,000 revolutions per minute.

Although the steam engine of 2,000 revolutions per minute was still very backward for Ding Yi, Li Jiangtou and others, who belonged to the top mechanics of this era, really could not span hundreds of years at once, and without vulcanized rubber, it would be difficult for the pipeline to solve the problem of air leakage. The watt steam engine does not use rubber, so its power is so small that it can only drive the textile machine.

But they had to go to get the Watt steam engine first to practice. However, looking at Li Jiangtou's steam-scalded skin, Ding Yi suddenly remembered something, and raised his hand to ask Li Jiangtou not to shout. After working under someone Ding for so long, Craftsman Li knew that every time this kind of season, Mr. must have some whimsical ideas, so he naturally closed his mouth with interest.

"Eucommia, leaves, skins, roots, fruits, can be glued, soaked in lye can produce about seventy percent of the glue, as for how to get it, you can try it yourself." Ding Yi searched through the memories in his mind, but there was really no more information for him to choose from, "Let's get that one-horsepower steam engine first, get it, and then get that train steam engine." ”

In fact, there were many evolutionary processes between the Watt steam engine and the 20th century train steam car. Dante really doesn't understand, the Watt steam engine is easy to say, there are people who have turned around this kind of museum, or those who are interested in the industrial revolution, it is not difficult to draw a map with a cartographic foundation; But if it weren't for the train steam engine when the special forces were on an undercover mission, he couldn't even draw the train steam engine when he saw that the drug lord wanted to repair a steam locomotive to transport goods because of the terrain.

This can only rely on Li Craftsman's head and them to imitate it.

"If you can't get it out, it doesn't matter, maybe I'm mistaken." When Ding Yi said this, he was really a little timid in his heart, if he wanted to talk about firearms, he used to load guns and heavy machine guns or assault rifles, even if it was a G11 that was as complicated as a clock, he had that confidence, and he was absolutely sure that he would not make a mistake. But the steam engine, the principle is to understand, the process can really only rely on memory, "as long as you can pull out the copper wire of uniform thickness, the steam engine here is not impossible, anyway, we are now to get rid of the problem of hydraulic drive, the copper wire can be pulled out, let's see if it is also a way to drive with electricity......"

Ding Yi is still a little sure of the principle of electric motors, and it is also possible to think about hydroelectric power, wind power, and thermal power generation. The steam engine is a thing that Ding is not sure of, but he can't pull out the copper wire of uniform thickness, and the motor is also blind.

"That's it, Eucommia's glue, if you remember correctly, it's very good, it's usually hard, but when heated to sixty degrees, it's soft and can be used, anyway, you try." Ding Yi had already invented the thermometer here, and when he said this, Li Jiangtou accepted it without hindrance, Ding Yi beckoned Li Jiangtou to get closer, lowered his voice and said, "There are 2,000 copper shell primers, and there are 1,000 copper shell bullets, don't produce it anymore, just that bit of copper, you look at it and try to pull the copper wire; There is also the fact that once the traitor comes, don't pay attention to everything else, keep the personnel on par, and follow Wu Quanyi to retreat to Guangzhou Mansion, people are more expensive than things, you must remember this, even if everything is protected, as long as an apprentice dies, it will not be worth it! ”

Ding Yi's idea was that these copper primers and copper-shelled bullets were enough for his special squad operation this time, and it would be meaningless to reproduce them, after all, he couldn't take the special squad around all day. And the copper primer is better, those bullets, a bullet, the bullet shell alone is a tael of silver, and each one has to be hand-finished, if Emperor Jing didn't give him a hundred craftsmen, he wouldn't be able to get it at all, get a bullet shell, almost after thousands of years, the same price as the manual manufacturing of precision CNC machine tool parts, a craftsman will take a few days to get a bullet case, and after rushing out, it will not be manually finished, and if it is too big to fill it into the revolver, I don't know how to get it, if it is small, it will leak or something, I don't know how good the road is, how can I afford it?

Besides, once Hou Dagou called, it would be troublesome to let the other party snatch the inventory.

But listening to Li Jiangtou's ears, he suddenly burst into tears, knelt down in front of Ding Yi, couldn't say anything, just kowtowed to Ding Yi, Ding Yi was so frightened that he hurriedly picked him up, and persuaded him to persuade him.

"Sir, damn it, whoever dares not to give his life to Mr. without his death, Lao Li will dare to stab him in the heart!" Li Jiangtou wiped his tears, gritted his teeth and squeezed out such a headless and tailless sentence, but he turned around and went back to the workshop, making Ding Yi stunned for a long time without reacting.

In these years, the status of craftsmen is extremely low, but it is not as good as modern, not to mention engineers in modern times, any eighth-level mechanical worker, where to apply for technical immigration, as long as the foreign language is no problem, the success rate is very high. The craftsmen at this time are not good, they are really lowly, how miserable is it? Worse than military households.

How much worse is it to be honest? In the era when everything is inferior, only reading is high, as long as possible, everyone tries their best to provide their children to study, in order to get ahead. So, in the Ming Dynasty, it is said that there are more than 1,000 Jishi, more than 600 children of farmers, more than 300 children of military households, and children of artisan households? There were only thirty-seven people. Perhaps the proportion of this Jishi can roughly see that the living environment of military households is worse than that of peasant households, and the artisan households are ......

So when Ding Yi said that a large amount of iron, charcoal, and green sails could be dispensed without, but he couldn't teach an apprentice to die, Craftsman Li really gave up. In the life of Craftsman Li, he has never seen or heard of a Shangguan and an owner who are so kind to the craftsman.

These craftsmen couldn't say anything like "treat me as a national soldier, and repay me as a national soldier", but Li Jiangtou went back to the workshop and told those craftsmen these words, everyone was stunned, and when they came back to their senses, there were really more than 100 craftsmen, all of whom were in tears. The group of people who had just come out of Wang Gong's factory all said: "This more than 100 catties will have to be sold to Ding Rongcheng in this life!" "The lord wants to be a prince of Wandai! I wait for these hard-working people to have a hope! "Two girls! You died unjustly, if your father had met the master, you wouldn't have starved to death! ”

Ding Yi didn't know that the mood of these craftsmen suddenly soared, because he didn't have time to pay attention to them, and he was about to set off. (To be continued......)