After worrying about the family for so long, it was hard to return home once, Xia Lin was naturally "entertained" well, and it was naturally rare to stay at home for one night.

Hurley, who was already eleven years old on her birthday, seemed to want to make up for the time spent with Xia Lin during this time, and stayed in Xia Lin's room to chat, and later insisted that Xia Lin wanted to sleep with him, Xia Lin naturally refused her decisively on the grounds that she had to meditate at night and that she still needed to entertain Carol.

In order not to snub Hurley's friend named Carol, Xia Lin made a simple deck of playing cards with the colored paper at home, and played the "devil fight" with two little girls for half a night, and then Bessie also joined in for some reason, thanks to Bessie's participation, Xia Lin finally had a quiet night.

After wondering when Hurley had become so close to her, Xia Lin shook her head and stopped thinking about these things, and soon fell asleep after doing her usual meditation in her room.

Early the next morning, when the three all-nighters girls were still asleep, Xia Lin got up with his father to have breakfast and rode to the industrial park in a carriage.

During this time, the directors of the industrial park were busy with the power reform, and today is the time set by Xia Lin to submit the report.

Yesterday, when Xia Lin went to the research institute to ride a bicycle with Harper home, he watched the research and development process of rotation, and after almost doubling the number of people, it was probably a matter of the next few days, he was able to complete all the experiments on all possible spell models, and find the real working rotation model from the many rotational models.

When the time comes, after the magic machine is developed and the test is completed, Xia Lin will start to change the power of some suitable machines and equipment into magic power.

As for how much the original magic motive consumes and how much horsepower it can provide, Xia Lin still doesn't have a clear idea, but according to his estimates, no matter how much a spell in one ring consumes, it won't exceed ten mana power, and the power it can provide shouldn't be less than 0.2 horsepower.

This value was preliminarily estimated by Xia Lin based on the magic consumption and power of the various one-ring spells he mastered, and as long as he could reach this level, the spinning technique and magic motive had practical value.

After saying goodbye to his father in the industrial park, Xia Lin first came to the office and processed all kinds of documents produced by the Xinye Chamber of Commerce yesterday for a while, and then left for the dock to take a boat to the R&D center to find Master Faun.

Yesterday afternoon, Master Faun submitted a report on the success of the development of the machine gun, but Xia Lin was busy attending Hurley's birthday party, and only went to the research institute instead of the gun factory to have a look, and this morning he naturally had to deal with this important matter related to the improvement of the combat effectiveness of the new army as soon as possible.

After the training of the new army this time, it will no longer encounter defensive battles and blocking battles similar to those in previous battles, but field battles that are more difficult and require a higher level of training for soldiers.

In that environment, machine guns, which have rapid-fire burst capabilities and can provide strong fire support in a short period of time, can definitely play a very big role, especially against cavalry.

At the same time as the machine gun, there were originally larger caliber guns, but the research and development of artillery is obviously much more difficult than machine guns, so far Xia Lin's desk received reports from the gun factory research and development workshop show that this kind of artillery does not have stable performance, Xia Lin is also ready to stop by to see the specific progress.

Coming to the office of the director of the gun factory, which was still in full swing of the expansion project, Xia Lin successfully found Master Faun, but saw that the dwarf master was lying on the messy bed with a large bamboo tube in his arms, and his snoring was almost comparable to spring thunder.

A questioning expression was made to the workshop leader who was leading the way, and the workshop leader showed a helpless look in his heart, spread his hands and shook his head, obviously this dwarf master who is the only one in the gun factory is not uncommon.

"Forget it, I remember you're Ed, right? You are also a workshop leader, you should know some technology, so you can take me to see the newly developed machine guns and large-caliber artillery! ”

Xia Lin also sighed and shook his head helplessly, not ready to wake up Master Faun, beckoned to the workshop director who had an impression in his memory and walked towards the factory director's office.

The original greenhouse-style gun factory has been relocated to the completed factory during this time, but the gun factory has been expanded in the wake of the request for expansion, so next to this gun factory, there are three new factories under construction, one of which is built to the highest safety specifications and has multiple walls on all sides, which will be used by Xia Lin to upgrade the gunpowder factory into a gunpowder factory.

Back in the factory, the sound of clattering machines continued to be heard in my ears, accompanied by the snort of the oxen next to the animal ratchet and the sound of the workers' horns.

Since there was not enough steel to build into a modern steel structure workshop, the newly completed gun factory had only one set of the most rudimentary lifting equipment designed by Xia Lin, which required twenty skilled workers to stand on a high passage to operate, most of which were manual work such as turning the lifting ratchet.

Workers dressed in simple white cotton vests stand at their posts, guided by a team leader's colored flags, and work together to power this set of lifting equipment composed of travel beams, fixed pulley blocks, end trolleys, power ratchets and steel cables.

The main purpose of this equipment is to lift the heavy parts such as the barrel of the gun body produced in the furnace of the artillery workshop of the gun factory to the designated position with the mold, such as the demoulding field, quenching pool, annealing kiln, etc.

Although the weight of the 80mm breech gun is only about 400 kilograms, it can almost double after adding the mold, and with the high heat when it is just baked, it will be very dangerous and difficult to lift it by manpower, and it will cause accidents if you are not careful.

"How's it going, this lifting system should be okay, right?"

Xia Lin walked through the busy gun factory, watched the workers operate the lifting system, and took the time to ask the nervous Ide workshop manager casually.

"Lift system? Well! Of course, Boss Xia Lin, if there is no such system, everyone will have to get twice the salary before they are willing to be the former mold workers! ”

Hearing Xia Lin's question, the workshop leader with a somewhat immature face was stunned for a moment, and then hurriedly replied.

"And will this system be able to lift your newly minted large-caliber artillery?"

Xia Lin asked again, the large-caliber artillery he set was actually just entering the threshold of heavy artillery in his previous life, that is, 100mm caliber, but the difficulty of casting has increased more than ten times, because there is good steel to have a good cannon.

At present, the craftsmen of the R&D center have just started their alloy research and development, and the gun factory can only use the carbon steel smelted by the steel plant as raw material, due to the different iron composition purchased from the market each time, the quality of the carbon steel produced by each furnace is also uneven, and basically it needs to be screened before it can be sent to the gun factory for making guns.

This is also the reason why even if the steel mill can produce fifteen tons a day, Xia Lin can only send four or five tons to the gun factory that is in short supply of steel.

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