Chapter 048: Steam Turbines
After staying in the city for another 15 days, Ye Xing returned to the barracks, and all the special training personnel on vacation returned.
Ye Xing prepared a "Donghai County Daily" for each barracks, let everyone read more books and newspapers, and re-replenished the personnel of 15 special training teams, and then trained by Li Qifeng;
Now it is aimed at cultivating masters, so all that is taught is the untransmitted martial arts and internal skills of the Qingyun Sect, and it is considered an outer disciple of the Qingyun Sect, of course, it is also agreed by the Qingyun Sect.
Of course, the special combat team members didn't know that this was the authentic martial arts of the Qingyun Sect of the Great Sect, and even if they knew, they would only be grateful for the selfless teaching of the two commanders, after all, they were not disciples of the Qingyun Sect at all, and they were not qualified.
Of the original personnel left in the barracks, 11 were supplemented and went to the special training team, and the remaining 92 people were trained by Ye Xing.
Ye Xing's training is completely different, the main method of operational command and logistics support, the goal is to train commanders and staff officers in the army;
Ye Xing didn't have this knowledge, and he invited a few retired officers from all over the place with a high salary, all of whom were invited by the Qingyun Sect.
In addition, a large construction project was being carried out in the barracks, and a military academy was to be built, and the instructors were all invited from various places to teach operational command and logistical support.
In every class, Ye Xing requires all personnel to record the main points with paper and pencil, and they must express their opinions after class.
What is Ye Xing's concept, that is, to make every effort to ensure his own security, and to have a primary operational concept, which is definitely not a theory of operation in the form of a large corps, but a small-scale, guerrilla warfare, and annihilation warfare as the core combat method.
In this era, the scale of tens of thousands of people and hundreds of thousands of people is completely different, and what Ye Xing wants is a combat method that focuses on assault and decapitation battles and aims at hitting the enemy's core.
In fact, Ye Xing knew that his city guard army was only a thousand people, and it was impossible for a large army to fight, and the Song Kingdom had been peaceful for three thousand years, and there had never been a large-scale war, so there was no example of a large-scale battle, and there was no need to study this aspect.
In addition to listening to the lectures by himself, Ye Xing also joined the discussion, wrote ideas on various combat techniques, and then discussed them with the instructors and students, and the academic atmosphere of this military academy was extremely free;
Of course, the daily training of soldiers is necessary, including that of officers.
After everything was on the right track, Ye Xing found that two months had passed, and he decided to deal with the affairs of the villa, although he went back to the Xingchen Villa a few times, he did not ask about the details.
Ye Xing asked Lin Tie to gather all the brothers in the villa, and the 12 people each reported on the work of the past four months.
Lin Tie presided over all the affairs of Xingchen Villa, and the economic expenses of the villa were mainly staff salaries and the cost of steam engine development;
For safety, the wall around the villa was reinforced and increased by a few feet, and now the fence is one zhang high, and the outside is completely unknown to the inside, and only a lot of wooden houses can be seen on the hillside of the villa.
Lin Haotian and Ye Yunshan are responsible for the improvement of textile machinery, which has improved many details, mainly because the machinery is more stable, the problem of broken threads has been greatly improved, the production of cotton cloth is more dense, and the work of four female textile workers is easier.
Now it is possible to weave linen, which is more troublesome than cotton, but it is also more durable, so it has a use.
The other nine people, divided into three teams, worked hard to develop the steam turbine with the first draft of Ye Xing's design, and now it has been successfully developed.
In fact, the steam engine is simpler, but Ye Xing knows that the steam turbine is more practical and must be developed in one step, as long as it is continuously improved.
After Ye Xing's super brain has carried out extremely fine deductions, as long as the accuracy of the parts meets the requirements, it will be generally not a problem, only the details remain.
When everyone came to the factory, a small one, only the size of a table, looked completely inconspicuous.
This steam turbine is mainly based on burning briquettes, the combustion chamber is in the middle, surrounded by a thick iron casting water tank, heating the pure water in the water tank to produce high-pressure water vapor, using an iron pipe to guide to a sealed impeller cylinder, which has 12 stages of unequal size of impeller rotation, water vapor becomes low pressure and then introduced into the next stage impeller cylinder, and finally the water vapor is condensed into water and pressed into the high-pressure water tank again.
After three months of hard work, they overcame countless difficulties to continuously improve to the current situation, which is the latest prototype, which is now used to drive the lathe.
There is a prototype machine that has been connected to the textile machine, which is more powerful and faster than the flow of water, and can increase the production speed by 8 times.
Now the textile machine is driven by a steam turbine, and four female workers watch the furnace coal and slag removal, one looks at the thread, and two pack the cloth, only working during the day and resting at night, and the output is still 4 times that of the original. Every day, we have to purchase raw materials in large quantities and transport away finished products.
Ye Xing observed all the working processes of the steam turbine very carefully, and put forward several ideas and opinions.
One is that coal burning is very slow, and the coal must be washed to remove impurities, which is too troublesome, and it is necessary to burn oil instead, which is oil, that is, mineral oil that flows out of the ground. From the geographical records, we know that there is a western part of Donghai County, and Lin Tie is arranged to buy all the oil-producing areas as his own oil production base, and he will do it immediately tomorrow.
The second is to design an automatic blowing device, as long as the cylinder works, it will automatically blow air to make the combustion more sufficient, which is very easy.
The third is to design an automatic feeder, which automatically delivers fuel for a period of time without people to deal with the work of fuel delivery and slag removal.
Fourth, the problem of steam leakage has not been completely solved, improve the machining accuracy of the cylinder, the tolerance should be more precise, and the test is to find a rubber plant to refine a high-strength sealant.
Fifth, the production of impeller is the most difficult, to continuously improve the shape of the angle processing and the strength of the material itself, this is the core technology of the steam turbine, there is no need to change anything else in the future, just continue to improve the impeller, such a design is to reduce the complexity of development, concentrate, but also save money.
Ye Xing asked the nine people to immediately improve the machine tool, improve the machining accuracy, and find lighter alloy materials to make the impeller.
Ye Xing had a meal with his mother, talked about some of his experiences during this time, and asked the city to send newspapers for each issue, so that the women could also read the newspapers, and everyone in the villa could also see and hear more.
Ye Xing checked everyone's martial arts cultivation, but they all made little progress, everyone's mind was not on cultivation, this problem had to be solved by finding a way, there was no ability to protect themselves, and all the results would eventually become someone else's bag.
Ye Xing asked Lin Hammer to put down his work and immediately return to Yunhai Village, and found all the children over the age of 10 in the village, let them learn skills here, and train their own people to become apprentices.
Boys and girls can come, as long as they want, let them come, and make every effort to train their children to be confident and bold to open up bigger careers, and the adults in the village who are willing to come also come to arrange some work that needs to be supervised by their own people.
Ye Xing asked Lin Tie and Mu Zilang to purchase the ownership of the oil production area, and let Lin Liang be responsible for the construction of the villa, and complete the construction of the house before the children came, and the remaining 6 people continued to improve the steam turbine and lathe according to Ye Xing's ideas.
Ye Xing 7 people were busy with 8 days of improvement work, testing and adjusting the shape of the vane wheel in various details, and also found a small amount of rubber from foreign businessmen, and after processing it into a sealing ring, the steam turbine has made a qualitative leap, and the key is that the efficiency of the steam turbine has improved a lot.
Lin Tie let people send back oil from the Xijiang waterway, and under the trial, it really has a great effect, compared with burning coal, it has a higher combustion heat and efficiency, and more importantly, the feeding has become extremely convenient, and there is no work to remove slag.
It has been raining every day for the past few days, and Ye Xing has returned to the barracks several times, but he has not stayed for long, mainly to solve various problems in the villa.
Ye Xing asked Lin Liang to issue a recruitment notice, build an expansion road to Donghai City and pave it with stones, so that it would not rain and muddy, and build a road to the barracks.
When Lin Tie returned, he brought back more than a dozen barrels of oil, and had already purchased a large area of wasteland that no one wanted, where oil was produced, and Mu Zilang had already recruited more than a dozen villagers nearby to help collect oil, and the output was not high.
Ye Xing asked him to deal with it like this first, and then solve the problem of output after a while, and for a while, he could only ship some of them every few days to maintain the normal use of the textile factory.
As for the transportation problem, the security problem of the oil base needs to be solved, but it is not something that can be solved all at once.