Chapter 125: The Steam Engine Laboratory

Beijing Guozijian.

Beijing Guozijian is also the fastest building in the entire city of Beijing.

There is already a large campus at the moment. It's just that these campuses are completely different from Nanjing Guozijian. Nanjing Guozijian has always been a delicate traditional Chinese building, carved beams and painted buildings, and even some yamen and court styles.

But Beijing Guozijian is different.

Beijing Guozijian, the building here is more like the popular shed in Liaodong, made of wood, concrete, wood planks and wire, etc., and the simple warehouse of later generations, there are many similarities. At first glance, you can see that it is easy to break, and it is easy to repair.

If no one tells He Xi, this is the school. It's okay to say that this is a factory.

The exchange of treasure money and the promotion of banks in various places are still going on slowly. There is a sharp contrast between the north and the south, and this contrast is unlikely to change for a long time. It is impossible for He Xi to concentrate things all the way to these things.

He had other things to focus on.

For example, the steam engine.

After He Xi changed the host of the steam engine, this was the first time that Zhang Zongde reported the progress to He Xi. He Xi also came to Beijing Guozijian.

I saw the scene in front of me.

However, it looks like a factory, but it is still different from a factory.

The whole thing seems to be two parts, from the mechanical construction to the final assembly of the steam engine, and against the walls on both sides, there is a blackboard with a diagram of the structure of the steam engine. There are also a lot of tables, all with stacks of manuscript paper, and I don't know what is written on them.

This made He Xi think of what Ge Tiangong looked like when he was hosting. The place where Ge Tiangong studied the steam engine was actually like a car repair workshop, and there were very few books and other things, unlike here, although the place was vast and there was a steam engine in the middle, but on the whole, the book manuscript paper here far exceeded the weight of the machine.

And the people who followed Zhang Zongde were completely different.

Behind Zhang Zongde, all the people who followed him were young people, at most in their twenties. As long as you ask, all of them have diplomas from several colleges such as Engineering and Science, Liaodong Technology, Yingkou, and even Navigation, and they are all bloody. One scar on top of the other.

I know that their hands-on ability is still lacking.

And Ge Tiangong's work team is the kind of old man who is very old, everyone has calluses on their hands, and in their own professional fields, among the specific craft categories, they are simply amazing. It's ingenious, it's hard to believe.

But the students, can only do it.

It's not that they suppress rising stars, but they have been like this since they were in elementary school, and they also think that these students are the way to speak, but without a few years of experience, they are not qualified to speak.

These are two completely different modes.

He Xi secretly said in his heart: "This is what a laboratory looks like." ”

Although it is said that it is too far from the sterile laboratory in He Xi's mind, where you have to change your clothes and shoe covers when you go in. But it already looks pretty good. It's like a university internship workshop.

Zhang Zongde He Xi explained: "My lord, in the past year, I have gone through the entire steam engine research materials. This is the latest steam engine I've ever designed. It has been able to run stably. ”

He Xi looked at the steam engine in front of him.

The first one feels big.

Of course, compared to the steam engine that had to build a boiler room, it was already very small, at least the whole shed could fit it. It was a vertical steam engine.

First of all, the boiler was shrunk, but even the shrunken boiler was three meters tall. Zhang Zongde improved the transmission structure, so that the steam engine could drive the lever and rotate the axle. In other words, with this steam engine, there is no need to combine the steam engine with the water tower to drive the machinery.

He Xi took a closer look, and also climbed the iron ladder next to the steam engine and walked to it. Step on the iron plate above and look at the concrete structure below. After reading it once, I could generally understand it, and when I came down, I said, "Yes, let's open it and try it." ”

"Adults have a golden body, and they can't be in danger." Wang Qianli said: "I have inquired before I came, this steam engine, after this year, broke down several times, and once exploded, the whole house was blown away. This is only here, as for the operation of a few parts sprayed out, there was a fire, such a big problem, a small problem, too many. ”

Zhang Zongde was a little embarrassed. He said, "My lord, rest assured that all the problems have been solved." Not this time. It's just that this launch has taken too long, and this time there is no preparation, so don't look at it. ”

It seems that Zhang Zongde feels that all the problems have been solved, but he is also worried that there is an unexpected problem.

It seems that Zhang Zongde did not choose this kind of laboratory like a shed at the beginning, but made of experience, this shed, almost made of some iron and wood, is also distressed when it is blown up, instead of, that kind of traditional house, which can be inherited for many years, and it is a new house, something really happened, and many people are distressed.

He Xi said: "Okay, let's see later." ”

Zhang Zongde immediately presented a picture album with both hands, on which all the structural drawings of the entire steam engine were spent.

He Xi took a closer look at it and said, "Say, what's the problem." ”

He Xi knew very well that Zhang Zongde called him over this time, but he didn't say that the steam engine could be mass-produced. The one in front of me can only be said to be a prototype, and he is invited to inspect it, not so much to inspect it, not to mention asking questions.

Sure enough, Zhang Zongde said: "My lord, this steam engine is my excellence, from the hundreds of batches of steel produced in Liaodong and Zunhua, to find the best batch, improve the machine tool processing, and even some details are polished by our hands, and finally assembled into this shape." ”

Zhang Zongde looked at this steam engine, and couldn't help but gently touch the cold steel with his hand, as if it could have a temperature. This is where his mind lies.

"But." Zhang Zongde also knew the problem very well, and said: "I don't know if we can produce the next steam engine. When you want to produce in high volumes, there are many problems that need to be solved. ”

"I've laid out the overall plan. Please take a look at it. ”

He Xi took the master plan from Zhang Zongde's hand, and just swept it, and frowned. It's not that He Xi doesn't want to support research and development in this area, but he wants to support it. But Zhang Zongde asked for too much. He Xi couldn't support it at all.

It is not so much that Zhang Zongde submitted an overall plan for the production and research and development of a steam engine, but rather that Zhang Zongde submitted a general plan for the production and research and development of a steam engine.

Among them, almost all aspects of steel smelting, machining are included. Zhang Zongde didn't say the specific number, because Zhang Zongde didn't know how much to raise, and He Xi had done it for so many years, and he knew it silently.

The price of a Zunhua Iron Works.

The first thing to conquer is the material.

That is, metallurgy.

In fact, Daming's steelmaking technology is enough to produce steam engines, but the problem is unstable.

Swords, farm tools, and even ordinary machinery, are unstable. After all, steel has reached the lower limit of various use scenarios. There won't be a problem. The steam engine, on the other hand, is much more demanding on steel. When the steam engine is moving at high speed, even if it is steel, it is said that if it breaks, it will break, and there is no reason to talk about it.

Zhang Zongde proposed a plan for a furnace temperature thermometer.

In order to determine the furnace temperature, the blast furnace of He Xi was refined. In this way, the furnace temperature can be adjusted more sensitively.

Ensure that the quality of steel is within a certain range, and can stably produce high-quality steel.

And high-quality steel can improve the performance of machine tools.

The quality of the machining performance of the machine tool, a large part of the knife, the knife used in the machine tool, in fact, is not the traditional knife, but high-quality alloy steel, the hardness should exceed the steel that needs to be processed, so that the iron can be sharpened like mud, and the processed steel will be processed into what people want.

There is no high-quality alloy steel.

A lot of precision machining is not possible.

Secondly, there is the machine tool.

Zhang Zongde redesigned almost all the machine tools, just like rebuilding all the parts of a steam engine.

Zhang Zongde's redesigned machine tool, He Xi also saw it, on the side of the laboratory. From the rails to the bed, all have been changed. It is completely different from He Xi's previous simple design.

Moreover, Zhang Zongde designed some special lathes to process some new parts.

These are those used exclusively on steam engines and have not been produced elsewhere.

Compared with before, the steam engine was stupid and clumsy, but now the steam engine finally made He Xi feel the beauty of what is called industrial design.

It's just that this aesthetic is also valuable.

If nothing else, the blast furnace was redesigned, the steel furnace thermometer was designed. How much does it cost? He Xi didn't know. But He Xi knew that this kind of blast furnace was now operating continuously and was not allowed to stop, because once it stopped, the entire blast furnace would be broken.

To study and improve the blast furnace, it is estimated that one will be built and one will be demolished.

I don't even know how many times it needs to be repeated to achieve the effect that Zhang Zongde wants.

A blast furnace is not worth much, it can be done for about a hundred taels. But the hundred taels multiplied by the unknown number made He Xi a little unbearable.

Not to mention, He Xi seemed to remember that he had done a stupid thing, he sold this place, and this was his He family's property. And because He Fu Industry bought a large piece of land in Beijing, Princess Anqing is building this piece of land with great interest. Another big sum of money.

In other words, the liquidity of He Fu is very small.

It seems that He Xi can take out a loan from the bank to complete this research and development, but he always feels that He Fu's burden is too heavy. There is no end in sight.

Not to mention, the machine tool for the production of steam engines is not good, that is to say, if He Xi wants to produce such a steam engine, the industrial system he created by himself needs to be updated. It's all money, huh?

Don't talk about others, He Xi himself is very distressed.

After all, everything now was created by He Xi with one hand and one foot. Not now.

Of course, it's one thing to feel distressed. Money is another matter, the funds that He Xi returned were used to exchange treasure money and establish a completed financial system. And where does the money for industrial upgrading come from?

Some people died, but not completely......