As a result of the proposed alliance countermeasures, the focus of the final alliance meeting was not at all on whether to provide steel assistance to the Xinglan Industrial Park or the distribution of shares in the six new factories in the industrial park.

After the meeting ended, Ellen Greg and Xia Lin's familiar nobles all came over to greet Xia Lin in turn, and after a brief chat, Xia Lin felt that because of this discussion, his status in the alliance seemed to have risen a lot.

"This is probably the Xialin route, right?"

Walking out of the Viniaa Opera House, Charlin looked at the bustling scene of thousands of sails passing by the Seine River, and shook his head self-deprecatingly, preparing to formulate a detailed plan for countermeasures, and at the same time to have Wyatt prepare to negotiate with the various chambers of commerce of the alliance for steel.

In Charin's plan, the agricultural cooperative has four steps to follow.

The first step was to establish a presence in the countryside by selling cheap iron and steel farming tools to farmers and estate owners.

The smelting level of the Sassen Empire was not developed, and the price of pig iron used for agricultural tools was 3.2 silver per heavy, and most of the farmers used wooden farming tools, except for some old freemen with good families.

If you can buy some iron and steel farming tools cheaply, I believe that farmers and estate owners will welcome the existence of rural cooperatives.

The second step is to connect farmers, manor owners and the livestock industry, and provide farmers with cattle and horses through farmers' application for rental and feeding, so as to further deepen the relationship between agricultural cooperatives and farmers and manor owners.

Hurgana is surrounded by mostly plain terrain, which requires the help of animals, but cattle are expensive, usually only available to the owners of the estates who have a livestock business, and the rental is expensive.

In this way, the alliance can undermine the influence of the manor owners on the grassroots farmers and some traditional agricultural manor owners, while strengthening its own presence in the countryside.

The third step was to be responsible for the sale of cheap goods from the commercial alliance, and through the cost advantage, the small-scale peasant economy and handicraft workshops around the imperial capital were bankrupted, and the farmers and manor owners were included in the commercial alliance system.

The biggest problem at this point is transportation, if you want to radiate the goods produced by the alliance to the periphery of the imperial capital, you must reduce the cost of transportation, which Xia Lin envisioned to build concrete roads with the power of the empire.

After the development of steel machine tools, the ball mill for grinding cement clinker will not be a problem, and the cement plant can continue to build cement vertical kilns, and the output of cement will increase several times or even ten times, which can provide the prerequisites for this idea.

The rest had to rely on the forces of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Earl Stewart, and the Merchant Chancellor, Earl Cullen, who needed to pass the policy of building roads at the Chamber, and get the Imperial City Hall and the Imperial Treasury to allocate funds, so that the Business Alliance could carry out the plan in name and money.

The fourth step is to sign agreements with farmers and estate owners for underwriting and guiding the planting of agricultural products, and establish agricultural research institutes to ensure agricultural production.

In the future, through mechanization, industrialization, and large-scale planting, the productive forces in the rural areas will be liberated, so that the peasants will flow into the cities and become workers, and they can also earn an extra wage on the basis of land.

At this point, it means that the cornerstone of the conservatives has been completely hollowed out by the enlightened, and the peasants and manor owners they relied on have been transformed into half-industrial and half-peasant agricultural workers and industrialized farmers, and have completely become a member of the industrialized system established by the enlightened.

Further, if Xia Lin's technology tree climbs to the back and points out the ammonia plant, then the conservatives will not want to turn over in their lives.

The existence of chemical fertilizer means that the enlightened faction has mastered the advanced productive forces, and it is completely possible to use this generation gap in productivity to form a dimensionality reduction attack, even if the conservatives cut the flesh and blood of other classes to feed the peasants and manor owners, it is not necessarily as attractive as the enlightened faction to provide fertilizer to increase production in large quantities.

And Xia Lin felt that it was quite simple for the world to point out the ammonia factory, because the high-temperature and high-pressure vessels required for the synthesis of ammonia could be made from the metal essence of the gods in various senses.

It's just that at the price and yield of pure gold...... I'm afraid that even with the full strength of the alliance, it will take two years for Xia Lin to be sure to light up this technology.

In addition to rural cooperatives, business associations

The League was also able to establish agricultural banks in the small towns surrounding the imperial capital, providing low-interest loans to farmers and manor owners, and through this economic means, it was also possible to further tie these groups to the Union's wagon.

As for the Forces nouvelles...... Xia Lin is naturally preparing to light up the musket and artillery technology, although this is not in line with the interests of the mage class he is in, because the effect of low-level mages in dealing with miscellaneous soldiers may not be as good as the musket, but this technology can greatly enhance the power of Xia Lin's own forces.

For a long time in the future, it is conceivable that Xia Lin will have a very high influence on this new army.

Because muskets and artillery, two new weapons, no one except Xia Lin knew how to use them, and how these soldiers who used the new weapons should be trained to exert their maximum combat effectiveness.

However, if you want to light up this technology, you have to wait for the electric arc furnace to tap the steel, and at the same time the pipe rolling mill can be successfully developed and successfully operated, in addition to the establishment of a gunpowder factory to be responsible for the production of gunpowder, thinking of this, Xia Lin added a sentence to the plan:

"It is necessary to purchase minerals such as saltpeter, sulfur and iron ore in advance as resource reserves."

At present, the development momentum of the industrial park is very good, and Xia Lin has to take precautions and extend to the upstream and downstream of the industry in advance.

In the future, the important raw materials of the industrial park will be completely pinched in the hands of the alliance, and even if Xia Lin's strength is enough, he can only exchange various compromises for these production raw materials.

With this plan in place, Xia Lin had five copies printed in the printing room next to his office, and asked Wyatt to send them to the five speakers of the Business Alliance.

There was nothing to do for the time being, Xia Lin was going to go to the machine tool factory to have a look, let Master Faun make the ball mill, and rescue the workers of the cement factory who were tortured by cement dust and arrange them to be built in the caustic soda factory and soap factory that were about to be built.

The principle of the ball mill is actually very simple, that is, the rotation of the ball mill barrel is used to drive a large iron ball inside to move continuously, so as to use the gravity of the iron ball to crush the abrasive.

On either side of the ball mill shaft is a leather bellows and a material box, and by blowing air into the ball mill, the powder that is light enough to meet the standard is deposited down the sealed cast iron pipe into the material box.

For today's machine tool factories with six-piece sets of turning, milling, grinding, drilling and boring, this simple machine is not difficult to machine, and the material is sufficient with pig iron.

Soon, under the leadership of Master Faun, a group of dwarven masters machined all the parts, and the iron balls inside were cast and then finished.

However, the accuracy of these machines still seems to be a bit problematic, and the drum of the ball mill rotates with some strange metal friction sounds, although it works, but it also exposes some problems with these machines.

Xia Lin thought about it and felt that it was better to improve the machining accuracy step by step, and it was better to work hard in normal times, so he told Master Faun about the principle of the spiral micrometer.

"Measuring through a series of fine threads? Sounds interesting, let's see if we can make it!"

Master Faun was intrigued by the fine threads of the spiral micrometer, and immediately beckoned a group of dwarves to try to develop it on a lathe.

Xia Lin asked a few workers to move the ball mill that had just been made to the cement factory, which was still the same, always leaving a thin layer of ash in various places, and it looked like it was always dirty.

That's why Xia Lin stipulated in his production safety management regulations that employees in dusty factories such as brick factories, cement factories and soda ash plants must wear gauze masks issued by the industrial park.

Hearing the news that Charlin had come to the cement factory, Adams hurriedly walked out:

"Good afternoon! Boss!"

"Well, long time no see, Adams, I brought you something good today!"

When Xia Lin saw Adams, he smiled and patted the carriage beside him, and in the open carriage of the carriage, various parts of the ball mill were placed.

"Really? Boss, what's the use of this machine?"

Adams asked, looking at the strange big iron ball, with some surprise.

"This is a ball mill, with this mill in this factory

The flour workers will be much easier. Let's go to the cement factory to assemble the machine first, there should be extra water wheel power in the cement factory!"

Xia Lin explained the role of this machine, seeing is believing, they came to the power shaft of the water wheel, installed the huge ball mill, and put a furnace of cement clinker that had just been produced into the ball mill.

Then the gearbox was connected, and the ball mill slowly rotated under the amazed gaze of everyone, and the large iron ball inside continued to rise and fall with the rotation, making a dull sound.

Xia Lin asked a miller to sit and step on the leather bellows with his feet, and after about ten minutes, after stopping the ball mill, he opened the material box, and everyone saw the delicate cement powder.

"That's a good thing!"

Seeing this result, Adams said with some excitement.

As the director of the cement plant, he has long been tired of the process of having three people grind the cement clinker, which is not only a waste of manpower, but also always has dust coming out of the grinding device, even if it is well sealed.

After the 20 sets of grinding devices in the cement factory were started at the same time, the floating dust on the ground of the cement factory never disappeared, so that he had to wear a mask every day.

Compared with the rudimentary grinding device, although this ball mill will also emit dust, the efficiency of one unit is comparable to the previous 20 sets of grinding equipment, so that the amount of dust in the cement plant is greatly reduced, which is good news for him.

"With this ball mill, the output of the cement plant should increase a lot, right?

Adams, do you estimate how much cement you can produce in a day? We are about to prepare for the construction of roads in the industrial park, and there are many projects that will also need cement in the future, and we still have a big cement gap!"

"In the past, because the grinding was too slow, we all produced a furnace and waited for a period of time before starting work, I think with the ball mill, the output should be able to increase to six hundred pounds a day!"

Adams replied with confidence.

"Six hundred? That's not enough, wait for you to contact the first construction company, let them build a few more cement vertical kilns, I will also ask the machine tool factory to build a few more ball mills, and strive to increase the daily output to 2,000 pounds.

Well done! Adams, I think you will be able to afford your own boat in a few moments, right?"

Xia Lin smiled at Adams, he gave these factory directors 2% of the shares, but the goods of several factories were digested internally, so Xia Lin prepared dividends for them according to the output and the unit price of the goods estimated by himself.

During this period of time, Adams's dividends should have accumulated almost 40 gold lundes, which is enough to buy a ship with a tonnage of about 500 tons.