NovelBonte Chapter 234 Changing the World Step 1 Bearing Birth!
Chapter 234 Changing the World Step 1 Bearing Birth!
Chapter 234 The first step to change the world is the birth of the bearing!
Zhao Gou used to disdain Xiao Qi for raising the treatment of craftsmen, but now seeing that he wants to raise the treatment of craftsmen again to a frightening height.
What made him even more dissatisfied was that Xiao Qi actually left the emperor in the water.
Xiao Qi got this Royal Craftsman Research Institute, and actually wanted the emperor to be the boss of the false post!
Although Xiao Qi stipulated that the craftsmen selected into the Royal Craftsman Research Institute must all be senior craftsmen who have made breakthrough research in the Great Song Foundry Bureau, but they are also craftsmen who have always been regarded as inferior people.
Moreover, the official position of the Royal Craftsman Research Institute has been promoted again, and the highest official position of craftsman has reached the fourth rank!
Zhao Gou couldn't bear it anymore. He felt that Xiao Qi had gone too far. I don't care if you raise the level of craftsmen. Now you actually drag the emperor of our old Zhao family to be the leader of those lowly craftsmen. How can this be done?
Zhao Gou expressed his objection, and Zhao Shen, who was originally unhappy, also asked Xiao Qi why.
Xiao Qi, who was excited about his plan, was stunned.
It took him a long time to come to his senses. This era is not the previous life that attached great importance to technology, but the era when all kinds of skilled workers who can change the lives of the world are called lowly industries.
Although Xiao Qi still felt very dissatisfied with the cheap craftsmen, the father and son could only explain patiently.
After thinking about it for a while, Xiao Qi asked the Second Emperor: "Do the two saints think that those craftsmen are lowly and will lose the royal family's face?"
Zhao Gou nodded and said: "King Zhenbei, you are my grandson-in-law, so our family doesn't have to go around. I really think it's not appropriate to use the emperor to be the head of a craftsman."
Xiao Qi said in his heart: Sure enough!
After thinking about it, Xiao Qi felt that no matter how well he said it, it would not have much effect, so he simply said: "No matter how much other children say, it is useless, only a sentence that the teacher said can make the second emperor know. "
Seeing this cheap father and son both sat up straight, they pricked up their ears and waited for him to say the following.
Xiao Qi said cruelly:
"The Second Emperor must never underestimate craftsmen. From now on, good craftsmen, especially those who can enter the Royal Craftsman Research Institute.
It will be the foundation of the country, the teacher once said: in the future, those who win the craftsman will win the world! "
Xiao Qi knew that it was impossible for these two people to understand just by saying this, so he begged for orders: "The Second Emperor followed his son to the practice field of the Song Dynasty Foundry Bureau outside the city to have a look, and he will understand that his son never said half a lie. talk!"
Zhao Shen looked at Zhao Gou and asked what he meant by being a cheap daddy.
Zhao Goulue thought about it, and thought that anyway, he was tired of playing sister games with those concubines in the harem all day, so let's go!
Nodding to Zhao Shen, Zhao Gou said, "It's good to go with King Zhenbei to have a look."
After hearing that his cheap father agreed, Zhao Shen immediately ordered the Royal Forest Army to prepare immediately and immediately went with King Zhenbei to inspect the Song Dynasty Foundry Bureau.
The Imperial Forest Army prepared very quickly, and after a short time, the Imperial Forest Army of the brigade escorted Erhuang and Xiao Qi out of the palace, and went straight to the Great Song Foundry Bureau outside the city.
After leaving the palace gate, Xiao Qi recruited a soldier and ordered him to rush quickly to inform the Song Dynasty Foundry Bureau and the Changsheng Battalion soldiers outside the Foundry Bureau to ensure that nothing went wrong.
After all, the ones traveling with me now are the current emperor and the Supreme Emperor of the Song Dynasty. If something goes wrong, it will be really terrible.
The group quickly arrived at the Great Song Foundry Bureau, Xiao Qi did not take Er Huang to the place where the craftsmen worked.
When we really wanted to go there, the craftsmen knelt down when they saw the Second Emperor. Not to mention that those things that could not be ignored at all were ruined. It would be a big danger if someone panicked and overturned a furnace or something.
He just took Erhuang to the finished product testing ground and saw three things, the drill of 'artillery', 'threbuche' and 'grenade'.
First, when he came to the artillery drill site, Erhuang saw that the soldiers first planted densely packed wooden signs in the distance, and then several artillery here opened fire at the same time.
The projectiles fired by several artillery pieces instantly plowed out an irregular passage dozens of feet long from the densely packed wooden signs placed in front of them. All the wooden signs on the original passage were shattered into pieces!
The second place is the trebuchet test site, which is still densely packed with wooden signs in the distance. After a few trebuchets were launched, the cast iron bombs thrown into the wooden signs smashed the wooden signs within a radius of one or two feet. They exploded to pieces.
Some wooden signs were even set ablaze, and the smoke filled the air for a while, and the shattered pieces of wood flew everywhere!
Zhao Gou and Zhao Shen just stared dumbfounded. They knew about the artillery, and they had heard about the cast iron bombs of the catapult, but they really didn't know that this thing was so powerful.
Then Xiao Qi brought the Second Emperor to the grenade testing ground. In order to carry out this perfect drill, Xiao Qi sent ten of his own soldiers, each carrying five grenades, to rush towards the wooden signs fixed there.
After throwing all five grenades, these ten people rushed from the front of the wooden sign to the end of the wooden sign.
Although Zhao Gou and Zhao Shen did not lead troops to fight, they also knew that a wooden sign represented an enemy.
There are probably several hundred of these wooden signs, and just like this, they were killed from the beginning to the end with fifty grenades by ten people?
Although in actual combat, those enemies will not just stand still and be bombed by you, but the reaction of those enemies must be to turn their heads and run away when they are frightened by such sharp weapons, and there will be no possibility of rushing to fight.
After the Second Emperor and Xiao Qi returned to the palace, Zhao Gou asked: "These things were all created by the virtuous son-in-law, and were they imitated by these craftsmen?"
Of course Xiao Qi put the blame on the unwarranted master:
"Yes, Grandpa Huang, my teacher, his old man once taught me that no matter which imperial court is in the future, those who win the artisans will win the world.
Grandpa, Father, after the Great Song Dynasty, I will gradually mention the treatment of craftsmen, and bring together skilled craftsmen to my Great Song Dynasty.
Although it is still necessary for children to use the things created by the master and other old people to let these craftsmen copy them, there will be more craftsmen in Song Dynasty in the future.
Among these craftsmen, there will definitely be craftsmen who are good at inventing and casting. At that time, my Song Dynasty will sweep the world, and there will be no rivals in this world! "
Zhao Gou and Zhao Shen saw those murderous weapons with their own eyes, coupled with the admiration for Xiao Qi's mysterious and unpredictable master in their hearts, they no longer hesitated, and immediately decided to follow Xiao Qi's idea to establish the Royal Craftsman Research Institute, Zhao Shen will do it That honorary chief.
After completing the work of the Second Emperor, Xiao Qi immediately resigned and went to the Great Song Foundry Bureau, and ordered to build another compound in the Great Song Foundry Bureau, and built several beautiful wooden buildings for those selected into the Royal Craftsman Research Institute. Office space for senior craftsmen.
Of course, these wooden buildings are only used as a place for senior craftsmen to draw and discuss. To do various experiments, they have to go to various experimental workshops. This wooden building cannot withstand any toss.
After Xiao Qi called all the senior craftsmen together, he read out the list he had selected before, and told everyone that only those who made great contributions to the Great Song Foundry Bureau could enter the Great Song Royal Craftsman Research Institute.
Those selected senior craftsmen heard Xiao Qi say that this Royal Craftsman Research Institute was actually managed by the current emperor directly as the boss, King Zhenbei.
Moreover, the highest official position entering the Royal Craftsman Research Institute has also jumped from the original sixth rank to the fourth rank!
These craftsmen were overjoyed by this news!
It is the fourth grade!
In the Great Song Dynasty, that was the proper official position of a senior official. Although it was a false position, he only enjoyed that kind of treatment and had no real power, but it was something that he never dared to dream of before.
After the news came out, those civil servants scoffed at Emperor Zhao Shen's actions. They felt that it was too shameful for Zhao Shen to be the head of a craftsman with the status of Ninth Five.
Although some people think that it is too high to change the highest official position of those craftsmen from the sixth rank to the fourth rank, but those official positions are empty positions and have no real power, which does not have much impact on their Confucian monopoly on official careers.
In addition, this matter was brought about by Zhenbei King Xiao Qi, these civil officials thought about it, but only tried it in the court, and wrote a letter asking the emperor not to be a craftsman.
These people originally thought that as long as the emperor did not become the head craftsman, they would demote the highest official position of craftsman in the future, not only to the original sixth rank, but also to the fifth rank.
Who knew that Emperor Zhao Shen simply ignored these people and insisted on being the head craftsman.
These ministers were all dumbfounded. They couldn't figure out why the emperor, who was the majestic Ninth Five-Year Emperor, insisted on being the head of those lowly craftsmen.
Zhao Shen secretly despised these ministers in his heart, and said to himself: My good son-in-law is right, these civil servants are still a little bit useful in governing the country.
At other times, I know how to fight for power and power, maintain the privilege of Confucianism to control the official career, and the development of the world is less than one percent of my good son-in-law.
After more than a month of preparation, the Royal Craftsman Research Institute was officially established, and Zhao Shen was also invited by Xiao Qi to attend the listing ceremony in person.
Although the Royal Craftsman Research Institute has only raised the wall, the small building inside is still under construction, and Emperor Zhao Shen left after showing his face.
But this influence is huge, which means that excellent craftsmen can already see the emperor, and in the words of the common people, they can reach heaven directly.
Just this time, craftsmen became the second most influential group in Song Dynasty after Confucianism overnight.
This surprised those Confucian officials who were still laughing at Zhao Shen behind his back before, but it was too late to stop him.
If you insist on doing that, you will definitely have a conflict with Zhenbei King Xiao Qi. The consequences are much more terrifying than the artisans taking the lead.
If Xiao Qi is annoyed, not to mention what to do with the Confucianism, but to slap those who take the lead in looking for trouble for fear of death, it is not difficult at all!
These belated ministers discussed together for a few days, and finally felt that the gain was not worth the loss, so they had to let it go.
Xiao Qi didn't have the time to pay attention to these things. Apart from staying at home with his wife and children, he focused on the research and development of steam engines, as well as the manufacture of bearings and carriages.
Days passed, and under Xiao Qi's intensive care, Bearing finally made a breakthrough.
Xiao Qi was overjoyed by the successful manufacture of the bearings. He immediately ordered the mass production of bearings for carriages, as well as wheels for carriages and cannons.
Important things have already been manufactured. In the Great Song Foundry Bureau with many craftsmen, it is too simple to manufacture carriages and cannon wheels. After a few days, two sample carriages and two cannon wheels were built.
Xiao Qi was very satisfied after personally driving the carriage. The four-wheeled carriage installed with bearings ran very briskly, and the carrying capacity of the carriage was also doubled several times.
It can be said that as long as the carriage boards are built strong enough, the same two horses can pull a four-wheeled carriage five times more than the previous two-wheeled carriage very easily.
If it is on a flat road, and the four-wheeled carriage is larger than the two-wheeled carriage, it is no problem to pull ten times the weight of the two-wheeled carriage.
After the artillery is equipped with wheels with bearings, two soldiers can pull the artillery and run fast on flat ground.
If there is a steep slope, ropes are tied on both sides of the gun mount, and someone pulls the front and the rear is pushed, and the steep slope is also very fast.
Xiao Qi is very happy, because with such a carrying tool, the four-wheeled carriage is loaded with ammunition, and the cannon is hung on the back of the carriage. It is already the fastest transportation vehicle in the world!
He took away the two built four-wheeled carriages, sent one to the palace, and kept one for himself, and ordered the vigorous construction of four-wheeled carriages. This thing is now an important strategic material of the Song Dynasty.
In the future, whether it is transporting luggage or temporarily transporting troops, this thing is much more advanced than other countries in the world at the same time, and it is definitely the most powerful existence in the world.
The only thing that makes Xiao Qi dissatisfied is that the steel of these bearings is still too weak, both the two steel rings and the trapezoidal cylindrical balls inside are too easy to wear.
If you run a long distance, it is estimated that you will have to change the bearings after running a thousand miles with heavy loads.
For this reason, Xiao Qi ordered that after each carriage is built, the bearings should be filled with grease, and each carriage is equipped with a maintenance box, which contains simple maintenance tools, and a set of replacement bearings and a pack of grease.
After those bearings are greased, they will be lighter when pulling goods, and as long as the driver frequently checks whether it is time to add grease to the bearings, clean the foreign matter and replenish the grease in a timely manner.
These bearings can run for three or four thousand miles under load before they wear out.
In this way, with the addition of a set of replacement bearings sent by each carriage, there is no problem with the logistics support of this carriage for World War I.
However, Xiao Qi still urged those craftsmen to pay attention to improving the quality of bearing steel and continue to study ways to improve the quality of bearings.
Xiao Qi also told those craftsmen the quenching method he had heard in his previous life, and asked them to experiment. It's not that the blacksmiths of this era don't know how to quench with water.
But in his previous life, Xiao Qi seemed to have read about quenching with oil in a book. Although Xiao Qi had never even seen quenching with water in his previous life, it did not prevent him from letting those craftsmen experiment.
Sure enough, the good news came quickly. After the experiments of the craftsmen, among the several steels researched by the craftsmen, a steel that was originally hard but easy to break.
After the bearing is quenched with oil, it is not only more wear-resistant than other steel materials, but also has increased toughness and is no longer easy to break!
(End of this chapter)