However, at this time, the steel in the base area was already outstanding. After being forged with a one-ton hammer, the quality certainly surpassed that of Baidu Steel.
The quality of steel is getting better and better, which brings many benefits.
Facts have proved that with good steel, ball bearings can be made.
Lubricating with butter is not a problem. The key problem is that the yield rate of pure manual forging is not high, the output is too low, and the cost is too high.
Because the best steel is very expensive and requires the most skilled master blacksmith to make it himself.
It also has to be inspected according to Huang Yi's standardization. Any deviation from the specifications will be judged as unqualified.
Huang Yi calculated the cost by giving enough materials and wages.
However, any product that does not exist in this era and comes out because of the golden finger has to be increased by more than double, and some are even several times, ten times or dozens of times.
The price increase depends on whether it is easy to imitate. Bearings, a product that can revolutionize wheels, should be sold at the same price as silver.
In other words, assuming that a bearing weighs one kilogram, if it is exported, the price will be sixteen taels of silver, and the asking price will be more than thirty taels.
With such a low output, it is not enough for personal use, and it is absolutely impossible to sell the bearings separately.
By making carriages, comfortable and light four-wheeled carriages were made for export, and they were sold to the Xuanfu and the capital, so as to earn money from dignitaries, landlords and wealthy people, in order to achieve the effect of robbing the rich and helping the poor.
To prevent a large number of wealthy people from hoarding gold and silver and causing the market economy to enter an endless cycle.
The economy in the last days is deformed. The front is tight and the rear is tight, and the high-ranking officials are even more extravagant and lustful.
If the four-wheeled carriages produced in the base area were equipped with shock absorbers, hand-cranked glass windows, and radiators with built-in briquette stoves to provide hot water circulation.
This spacious and bright four-wheeled carriage will no longer feel like your bones are falling apart when you sit on it.
It will definitely be like the high-end cars of later generations, sought after by dignitaries, landlords and wealthy people who are not short of money.
Without qualified steel, it would be impossible to imitate steering shafts, bearings, hinges, wheel hubs and shock absorbers in the short term.
You can't make a hand-cranked glass window without glass.
The base area will definitely be able to monopolize the luxury passenger carriage market and have pricing power.
Therefore, Huang Yi drew a drawing of a four-wheeled carriage and asked Lan Jinkui to be responsible for manufacturing the prototype and strive to complete two road tests within six months.
Huang Yi likes to talk about important things three times when he comes to inspect and inspect factories and workshops.
The most talked about thing is standardization, standardization, and the third time is standardization.
Huang Yi, who is in the highest leadership position in the base area, attaches great importance to standardization, so he produces bearings, wheel hubs, and steering shafts with uniform specifications.
Therefore, the freight carriages in the base area are no longer just two-wheeled. Every month, there are more four-wheeled carts with double the load capacity.
The wheel revolution can double the efficiency of large vehicles. Even if the production of steel cannot keep up with demand, we still have to bite the bullet and get on with it.
From now on, only four-wheeled carriages will be added to the base area, and inefficient two-wheeled carriages will be phased out.
Attacked the Haraqin tribe, wiped out the nobles in the tribe, and confiscated more than 200,000 taels of gold, silver, pearls and agate.
There is no point in keeping money. Buying back food and hiring laborers to burn cement, smelt steel, and build houses is the top priority.
Anyway, a strong laborer who mines and transports stones works five hours a day for a month, and his income is no less than one tael of silver.
The size of the city will definitely become larger and larger, and Huang Yi is reluctant to part with arable land. Anyway, the cement factory needs to reserve a large amount of raw materials.
Therefore, we made a plan to expand the city to the southeast, dig out the hills there, and first level out two square kilometers of land.
The wisdom of the working people is endless. When they break open the stones, they collect whatever they find of the right size.
Stones weighing 20 to 50 kilograms are of course used to build city walls. A large amount of stones are also needed to build residential houses and dormitories.
Because there is an inexhaustible supply of stones, brick and tile factories basically do not need to burn bricks and spend most of their time burning tiles.
It’s not just stone mining. This winter, the number of people digging coal and iron ore has also increased a lot.
It doesn’t matter if you can’t use so much output for the time being. You can reserve it to deal with a sharp drop in output during busy farming periods.
Despite Huang Yi's correct guidance, the drawings drawn by Huang Yi himself, and the process flow noted, the cannon casting still experienced more than a dozen failures.
It’s true that failure is success.
Master Liu Han, who led dozens of craftsmen to cast cannons, finally accumulated experience and mastered the correct method.
The four cannons produced in the base area are still intact after five to six hundred firing tests.
There are four guns in two sizes. Huang Yi did not use three-pounders and six-pounders to calculate the shells, but used the 500-gram pound in later generations.
Huang Yi's mobile phone contains a lot of information about muzzle-loading smoothbore cannons from the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries.
It is known that Europe at this time had begun to use three-pound bronze cannons for easy transportation. This kind of cannon was often called a regimental cannon.
It is also known that the Swedes once made the lightest artillery pieces out of leather.
This leather cannon capable of firing three-pound shells weighed only 75 kilograms. It was made of copper core iron hoops and covered with leather. It also participated in actual combat, but was finally abandoned because it was too easy to damage.
Regimental guns were relatively light, weighing about 120 to 140 kilograms. They were usually pulled by one or two horses and required only two gunners to fire.
These artillery can fire all common ammunition, and the effective killing distance of shotgun shells reaches 150 to 60 meters.
The three-pound regiment gun produced in the base is nearly four feet long, has a caliber of seven centimeters, and weighs three hundred kilograms. It can fire a hundred shots composed of lead balls or iron balls weighing three or four cents.
what does that mean?
This means that one horse can pull the gun carriage, and two horses can pull the gun at a gallop.
This means that one cannon can withstand a volley of one hundred musketeers.
This means that the Tatar and Jiannu cavalry will be covered by bullets when charging!
hey-hey! Without machine guns, with such a powerful weapon that can spray out a hundred bullets in an instant, future wars with Jiannu and Tatars will definitely be able to cause greater damage with smaller casualties.
Europeans called this type of gun a regimental gun, because at first each regiment was equipped with one, and later it was increased to two.
The regimental artillery is actually a field operation, and the infantry equipped with muskets is still unable to resist the intensive charge of the cavalry.
But with a certain proportion of field runners who can quickly fire shotguns, you won't be afraid of cavalry.
This can exactly make up for the shortcomings of the Han army's small number of cavalry.
Huang Yi was not sure how many men there were in a European regiment at this time. Anyway, he felt that it was only equipped with one or two cannons.
In future wars, firepower will definitely be overwhelming. Of course, the more artillery, the better.
His plan was for the artillery to form a separate army and be directly under the command of the base headquarters.
When participating in the war, each hundred generals plus one or two artillery flags using one to four three-pound cannons.
