Chapter 53: Squeezing the Wizard Dry
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A month after capturing Smart, Cheng Pan took the Western wizard to the machinery factory in Huangzhou territory. Today's Huangzhou No. 1 Machinery Factory is not a workshop in terms of workers or area. 3,000 people work here, and there are a series of advanced tools such as the four-wheeled carriage production line, the pot camel machine production line, and the steam tractor production group. In recent years, with the improvement of steel quality, the variety of machine tools in machine shops has also begun to grow explosively. The categories of ten machine tools, such as lathes, drilling machines, grinding machines, and milling machines, have begun to be distinguished. Moreover, each major category is also divided into sub-categories, and the production of these machine tools is specially designed and manufactured by craftsmen due to their needs in actual processing. This is of great help to the machinery manufacturing industry.
And the reason Cheng Pan brought Smet here was because Cheng Pan valued one of the things in one of his notebooks, the mechanical clock. At present, the timers used in Cheng Pan's factory are hourglasses, incense burners and drippers, which are very inconvenient. Cheng Pan once read the principle of a mechanical clock on the Internet and remembered about a few transmissions. But Cheng Pan was not a human at that time and could not remember every structure. But as far away as Europe, public clocks appeared in 1335, and Italian monks built bell towers in this way. For the time of religious ceremonies, the error of this bell tower is within tens of minutes a day, and Cheng Pan's current conditions for making clocks are far better than those in Europe, and all the parts are made of steel. This is not possible at this time with such low productivity in Europe. The current steelmaking technology in Europe is far inferior to that of China now, not to mention the converter steelmaking method in the Chengpan territory at this time. But Cheng Pan's watchmaking career is still not all smooth sailing.
The current clocks in Europe still adopt pendulum clock energy release, while Cheng Pan adopts the springspring as the elastic potential energy release mechanism. This is the thing that impressed Cheng Pan the most in the construction diagram of the mechanical clock on the Internet. The hairspring is a roll of elastic metal that looks like a mosquito coil, which is widely stored in various meters, and curious students can smash open the pressure gauge to show this kind of thing. The structure proposed by Cheng Pan is very advanced and impresses Smet. This construction can only be used in Cheng Pan's territory, due to the production of qualified steel. This structure is much more advanced than the pendulum clock, and the original pendulum clock structure has limitations, and it cannot be used in the original bumpy and rocking ship. A hairspring avoids this problem.
Of course, in the manufacturing process, this hairspring alone consumes dozens of spring steels with manganese. All the gear parts were calibrated by the craftsmen many times, and a large number of unqualified parts were eliminated at the same time. Finally, the first clock was made. This large watch, which is one meter in diameter, has an error of ten seconds per day (sundial calibration). The whole is full of metallic feeling. As soon as this thing came out of the territory, the process of strict adherence to processing times in the steel mill was greatly improved. A large number of drips and hourglasses in steel mills are eliminated. Productivity across the territory is moving towards higher standards.
Although the cost is huge, Cheng Pan feels that it is worth it. Since the length, weight, and volume were standardized, the last shortcoming of time has been made up for by mechanical clocks.
Cheng Pan Palapan set up a mechanical group specializing in the manufacture of clocks and watches in the territory. Bell towers have been erected in the major factories in the territory. After Cheng Pan let go, the watchmakers kept summing up their experience. Originally, some of Cheng Pan's erroneous demands were overturned. The most obvious is the material of the hairspring. The craftsmen of the realm now use a certain proportion of brass to be better than spring steel. Moreover, compared with the difficulty of manufacturing spring steel, the production technology of electrolytic refined copper in the territory is very mature. A large amount of refined copper is made, and after proportioning, it is easy to obtain brass with excellent quality.
As for Smart, after completing this work, he was exempted from spending the rest of his life on an uninhabited island. He was freed, but Cheng Pan did not arrange him any administrative positions. After all, the ability of mental hypnosis is too bt. If you put him in the system, you can't do it and you'll be a Yuli-like character.
Cheng Pan placed him in the chemistry group. As for the technology leak or something. Cheng Pan didn't care at all. Compared to those protagonists who crossed during the Republican period, they were able to bring China to the top of the world when China lagged far behind the West. And Cheng Pan is now living in an era where China has the upper hand. In terms of population, China as a unified group fared much better than Europe divided into a dozen ethnic groups by topographical scripts. Moreover, a year later, the mighty Black Death would harvest heads in large numbers in Europe. There is no reason why Cheng Panna's forces in the midst of the Industrial Revolution are growing slower than those in Europe.
Moreover, the system in Europe at this time was completely a poisonous vegetable society, and the privileges of the clergy and nobles were huge, and all social strata were extremely solid. Cheng Pan is beginning an attempt to implement modern state management. Equality has been implanted in the rules of the territory at the beginning of Cheng Pan's power. wanted to engage in the literati landlord class, which was naturally superior to others, but was completely stepped on by Cheng Pan economically and culturally.
After coming to the East, he stayed under Cheng Pan for the rest of his life, and after learning about the two disciplines of chemistry and physics, he was as fascinated as most researchers in the territory at this time. Years later, in Smet's recollection, he said, "At that moment, I found my way." Two years after joining the realm, Smart was given the surname Chen, and his name was Chen Zhi.
As for now, Smart is still being squeezed by Cheng Pan. Finally found a Western wizard. Cheng Pan wants to hollow out his knowledge, and after a period of temptation (there is more coercion than the lion does not need to scare the sheep). Some of the western processes such as glass manufacturing and formulations were purchased by Cheng Pan. Cheng Pan couldn't help but read a few words, Smart's wizard profession was a bit biased towards an alchemist in terms of attributes.
In this exchange, the technology between the Middle East and the West began to water new scientific and technological flowers on this hot land.
Cheng Pan has gained not only in farming, but also in terms of strength. In order to achieve the purpose of deterrence, Cheng Pan intentionally or unintentionally took Smart to see the corpse of his current most powerful opponent. After seeing the dragon. Smart first expressed his surprise at the powerful combat power that Cheng Pan could slaughter this kind of demonic beast that was not inferior to the Western Wyvern, and then carefully observed the corpse of the dragon and hung Cheng Pan aside. At this time, one of the dragon's beaded organs full of cold air in the throat, as well as sharp horns, caught Smart's attention. Smet sincerely said that this sharp horn is a good carrier for depicting spiritual lines, and this round organ full of the icy power that Cheng Pan has suffered can temper his body through several herbs. Cheng Pan became interested in Smart's ghost notes. Witchcraft in the West became a way for Cheng Pan to increase his strength.