The matter of double cultivation needs to be gradual, and it is not possible to improve too much at one time.

The time slowly pushed forward to November 1616, and heavy snow began to fall in eastern Liaodong. The cold and freezing restricted people's movements, and even most of the territory of the 'revolutionary army' began to become deserted, but it was still in full swing in many parts of Golden State.

The only way for the traversers to dominate the world by the end of the Ming Dynasty is to give full play to their scientific and technological advantages to carry out great development and carry out the industrial revolution in advance. However, two important resources of the Industrial Revolution were indispensable – coal and iron. The Liaodong Peninsula is good for everything, and if you want to have fields, you want to have sea transportation, but you lack these two important resources.

At that time, the British cut down all their trees in order to make iron. However, there are many coal mines and iron mines, and the development of industry is out of control. But if the 'revolutionary army' can't get enough coal and iron, then it will be in trouble.

If you don't have coal, you can use wood instead, after all, wood can also be used as fuel. But this iron mine is really blind. The constraints on raw materials made the 'revolutionary army' extremely uncomfortable, and they could only strengthen their external mineral purchases, especially from Tianjin and Shandong.

After Yuan Qingying communicated the relationship between Zheng Guifei and the 'revolutionary army', Tianjin Port began to transport goods to Lushun. A large number of ships come and go on the sea, and each ship is loaded with more than a dozen tons of cargo. Hundreds of tons of supplies can be delivered every day. Most of them are the coal and iron that Zhou Qingfeng needs by name.

Similarly, the blessing of Ma Gonggong of Tuodong Factory sent Xu Hongru, the head of the White Lotus Sect, to the 'Revolutionary Army'. This sect leader not only greatly increased the strength of the high-level of the 'revolutionary army', but also gave all the industries accumulated by the White Lotus Sect in Shandong for hundreds of years to the 'revolutionary army'.

After Xu Hongru's use value was finished, Fan Wan'er, as the deputy minister of the Ministry of Security, went to Shandong to take over the various industries of the White Lotus Sect. She is the only three of Xu Hongru's eight disciples who have achieved fruitful results, and the other two senior brothers and younger brothers who originally stayed in Shandong are only good at business, and under her 'persuasion', they also obediently surrender to the 'revolutionary army'.

The White Lotus Sect provided the 'Revolutionary Army' with millions of taels of silver, countless shops and properties, and a complete underground network. With the existence of this network, Shandong's coal and iron resources can also be used by the 'revolutionary army'. Although the level of logistics and mining was extremely poor in those years, it was able to prevent the iron-making furnaces of the 'Revolutionary Army' iron and steel plants from going out.

However, such a large-scale import trade made the financial situation of the 'revolutionary army' very dangerous, and the loss of silver was very serious. If it weren't for the White Lotus Sect contributing a large amount of money, Xu Bing of the Ministry of the Interior would have declared himself bankrupt.

In order to balance the trade, several traversers of the 'Revolutionary Army' racked their brains to find a way. Their first thought was to find out how Britain was engaged in foreign trade back then - do you still need to look it up? It's written in history books and politics books. The textile industry developed from the 'enclosure movement' and the 'sheep eating man'.

Forget it, where are we going to get wool? It's useless to get the wool, you have to spin the yarn. Does that have to make a Jenny spinning machine? But it's actually not bad to spin.

After thinking about it, Zhou Qingfeng could only make up his mind at the high-level meeting: "Limited by the supply of raw materials, the development of the steel processing industry has lagged behind. However, the timber resources in the Qianshan Mountains are good, and we have trained a large number of carpenters, so we can engage in the wood processing industry.

The engineering department came up with woodworking lathes, planers, sawing machines driven by manpower, animal power and water power. It is necessary for us to invest in this area again. The wood processing industry is doing well, after all, wood is indispensable for the current development of the shipbuilding industry. ”

Shipbuilding?

The traverser suddenly began to talk.

Li Shuwei first affirmed that the shipbuilding industry must absolutely develop, "We are now in a safe corner, and our external traffic depends entirely on ships. But in fact, whether it is marine fishing or external transportation, we do not have enough boats. Relying on the efficiency of purchasing ships is too slow and the cost is too high, and we still need to have our own shipbuilding capabilities. ”

Stone wants coal and iron, and he can't wait to increase the transportation capacity currently controlled by the 'revolutionary army' by ten times. He also raised his hands and feet in favor of shipbuilding, "My second iron-making furnace is about to be built, this time I deliberately use a steam engine to drive the blast, the furnace temperature will be greatly increased, the smelting efficiency can be increased several times, the only thing missing is raw materials." ”

Zhao Ze from the engineering department also nodded in agreement, "We do have a lot of carpenters at present, especially after the semi-mechanized equipment such as woodworking lathes is completed, the efficiency of processing wood has increased by dozens or hundreds of times." Beginner carpenters can do very beautiful work. As long as we can process large plates and keels, we can start with some simple boat types and gradually improve. ”

Xu Bing also agreed, "While the silver looted by the White Lotus Sect is still there, let's build a ship." Initially, you can invest 30,000 taels to excavate the dock, build a gantry crane, build a workshop, lay the transportation track in the factory, and train employees. However, after building this field, I am afraid that it will be three or four months later. ”

Everyone looked at Zhou Qingfeng again, and the latter said: "The shipyard will start planning and construction now, and before that, let's start a short and fast project, and get a wood processing plant to practice your skills." We need a lot of furniture, and we need to process wood to build a house, and even if we build a ship, we need to pre-treat wood. ”

It was agreed that a wood processing plant should be built first.

After this resolution was issued, Zhao Ze of the engineering department immediately dispatched 20 backbone carpenters, plus 100 carpenter apprentices, to build the shelves of the processing factory. Sang Youshen, as an old backbone, directly became the ...... and chief technician of the processing plant this time.

"Didn't you say let me be the factory director?" After Sang Youshen received this appointment, his angry eyebrows were raised. When the factory was formed, the carpenters in the engineering department were hotly discussed, and everyone felt that the head of the new workshop must be Sang Youshen. For this reason, Lao Sang Tiantian is humble, saying that he is obedient to the organizational arrangement, but in fact, he has long been thinking about the position of the factory director.

As a result, he became the chief technician, but it was very uncomfortable.

The Engineering Department is responsible for providing the list of personnel, and the Administration Department is responsible for reviewing the grants. The audit opinion clearly states that 'Master Sang Youshen has exquisite skills, but his education level is not high, and he lacks management ability, so it is better to work as a technician'.

Sang Youshen can't read big words, and he can't understand it after seeing the audit opinions. When he came back to his senses, he felt even more uncomfortable, which meant that he was 'blind' and could only do coolies. I was sad and angry for a while, and my nose was sour, and I wanted to cry.

The timber processing plant is located on the Qingyun River east of the Golden State, where a construction team has been instructed to build a dam to make the most of the water. At present, there is an abundance of labor within the 'revolutionary army', and thousands of peasant households come out to work in this winter to earn money, and they can also eat three meals a day.

Construction is taking place on both sides of the river, and wood cut from the Thousand Mountains is pulled here in horse-drawn carts, and can be used to build sheds after being simply trimmed. At present, the 'revolutionary army' is already familiar with the construction of four- or five-meter-high sheds, and the roof can be erected with a few simple columns. A shed of several hundred square meters is enough to be built in three to five days.

Sang Youshen, who felt uncomfortable, was standing on the bank of the river, and in front of him was a newly installed hydraulic sawmill. Several carpentry apprentices carried large pieces of wood from horse-drawn carts to the sawmill's saw blades.

The saw blade is driven by a flywheel that accumulates energy and pulls back and forth. The flywheel is powered by a waterwheel on the riverbank. This is the second generation of hydraulic sawmills manufactured by the engineering department, and the flywheel storage has greatly improved efficiency.

Carpentry apprentices push trees with a diameter of more than 30 centimeters at breast height under the saw blades, and the sound of sawing is pleasant to hear. Wood that used to take several stout men a day to saw, now takes a few minutes to become a very smooth plank. This efficiency was unthinkable in the past.

Sang Youshen was also shocked when he saw this sawmill for the first time, and felt that with this thing, a good life for carpenters had come. But in less than a week, he felt that the carpenter's good life was over. Because the sawmill is only labor-saving, the subsequent woodworking lathes even save skills.

In the past, it took several years of training by a carpenter to create a rounded wooden stick of fixed size, and it took a lot of time to make it. But now it's too simple, as long as you have a junior diploma of three months of study, know how to measure, and can understand a few numbers on the drawing, you can directly clamp the rough wood towards the lathe.

As soon as the feed shaft of the lathe turned, the wood was planed into a smooth stick under the cutter. Then use sandpaper to polish the wooden stick slightly, and finally measure the diameter, the error can be easily controlled within a few tenths of a millimeter - in the past, this was the delicate work of the master, but now an apprentice can complete it in only half an hour.

Sang Youshen was also shocked when he saw the carpentry lathe for the first time, but he immediately felt scared.

At that time, Britain engaged in the Industrial Revolution, and a large number of machines to replace human labor were invented. The workers who had lost their jobs were so frightened and angry that even the British government at the time felt that the situation was serious. Angry unemployed laborers smashed machines, demolished factories, and demanded jobs.

But none of this stopped the Industrial Revolution.

"What else can we old carpenters do in the future?" Sang Youshen has a strong sense of crisis, the reason why he is so enthusiastic about the position of factory director is that he feels that he can be a leader to be safe and worry-now is good, technician? It shows that his crisis is still there!

"Master Sang, we have a new furniture structure diagram here. We don't understand the place where there is a mortise, can you give us some pointers? "A young student came running over with a drawing in his hand.

Three views of the parts of a chair on the drawing. This thing is used in mechanical manufacturing, and ordinary people really can't understand it. Sang Youshen glanced at it, and secretly said in his heart: "What is painted on this?" I don't understand it. ”

"You leave me with the drawings first, and I'll take a few more looks, and I'll tell you later." Sang Youshen couldn't say that he couldn't understand it at all, so he could only fool the past first. He saw that the young offspring who asked this question was only seventeen or eighteen years old, had attended night school, attended training classes, worked during the day, read and could read at night, and learned things very quickly.

The young descendant left according to his words, and Sang Youshen sighed deeply when he looked at the drawings again. He left the factory with his hands behind his back and followed a gravel road to the dormitory area near the factory. A large row of rooms was hastily built in the dormitory, and he divided one set as the chief technician. This house is much worse than his house in Fushun, but it is extremely rare at the moment.

Sang Youshen's family members are all in Jinzhou City, and he currently lives alone. When he arrived at the single room in the dormitory, he looked at a few books on the table by the sun outside the window, and couldn't help but sigh and pick them up, "I, an old carpenter who has worked all my life, is not even as good as an afterlife, and I put my face there." Am I really too old to study? ”

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