If ready-made garments want to win customers, they need to highlight their characteristics and position themselves well in the market. They must comply with court etiquette and pursue beauty and elegance.
Zhu Yunwen's idea is bold and advanced.
Ma Enhui was surprised when she heard this, but Chen Yu nodded repeatedly. Although people are used to looking for tailors to make new clothes, this is the capital, and it is very common to visit or be visited at home. You can't wait for the tailor to get new clothes. It's better to go to a clothing store and buy them directly. It's more elegant to wear new clothes and be elegant. good?
Zhu Yunwen once again emphasized: "Ready-made clothing must build a brand and appear noble, so that nobles, officials, and gentry become the main buyers. After these people recognize and get used to it, we can build new affordable ready-made clothing stores..."
Tailoring and making clothes require a lot of labor, and the initial investment cost will definitely be higher. However, Ma Enhui has plenty of money. Whether she can go out of this way and create a new industry depends on the ability of Chen Yu and others.
No matter what, if someone moves to the capital, they should be given enough chances to survive. Only in this way can the capital become more prosperous.
While Zhu Yunwen was sketching the clothing store, Shuangxi hurriedly walked in, handed over a document, and reported: "Your Majesty, Zhang Bing, the chief envoy of Peking, has sent an urgent report."
Zhu Yunwen was surprised. Zhang Bing wouldn't make an emergency report if nothing happened. Could it be that there was something wrong with the construction of the new city?
In an instant, Zhu Yunwen rejected this idea.
If there is really a big problem in building a new city, it should be Zhang Sigong, Chen Gui, and Yao Guangxiao who should make the emergency report, not Zhang Bing.
He took the document and quickly opened it to check.
Zhu Yunwen burst out laughing, excited: "Okay, okay!"
Ma Enhui saw Zhu Yunwen was happy and congratulated: "Congratulations to Your Majesty."
"Congratulations if you know anything?"
"It must be a good thing to make the emperor so happy."
Zhu Yunwen handed the document to Ma Enhui, asked Chen Yu to serve him a cup of tea, and sighed: "God bless the Ming Dynasty!"
After Ma Enhui reviewed the document, she frowned and said, "When the craftsmen of Peiping were digging mountains in Miyun, they found chromium ore. What is chromium ore?"
Zhu Yunzhen was sipping tea and felt very comfortable.
Domestic chrome ore is very scarce, but it is not impossible. The discovery of chromium ore in Miyun is really good news. This is good for the Second Artillery Bureau to improve firearms and the Engineering Machinery Institute to improve steam engines.
"The queen doesn't know. This chromium ore is rarer than gold. When added to iron, it forms ferrochromium metal, which can withstand high temperatures and is more resistant to corrosion. It can also be used to hit stainless steel. What is stainless steel? Oh, it just won't rust. of iron…”
Zhu Yunwen did not expect that Miyun discovered chrome ore first before there was any news about the mining team in South Africa, which actually helped Daming.
In particular, the improvement of steam engines has encountered a bottleneck. With the dispersed application of steam engines in many departments, the heat resistance of steam engine devices has encountered many problems, and there are also difficult-to-solve corrosion problems. These problems can only be solved by thickening and forging, and The problems cannot be greatly improved. With ferrochrome, these problems can be solved.
"The problem of the steam engine is finally solved. This time, we will never lag behind others again!"
Zhu Yunwen said easily.
Ma Enhui asked doubtfully: "He, who is the person the emperor is talking about? Is there a more powerful dynasty in the world than the Ming Dynasty?"
Zhu Yunwen shook his head, looked down at the tea and remained silent.
Ma Enhui didn’t know, and the people of Ming Dynasty didn’t know that the Renaissance in the West promoted the emergence of capitalism, and that Western science and technology was about to enter the stage of history. In a few decades, their power would reach the East along the sea, and in more than four hundred years In the next year, they will use powerful ships and cannons to force this land to open its borders and fall into the abyss of humiliation.
But now, Ming will no longer lag behind, and China will no longer lag behind!
Ming Dynasty has taken the lead in technology!
The rest is left to time and the talents of Ming Dynasty.
The seed of science and technology has sprouted in the Ming Dynasty. As long as we care for it and don't kill it, it will surely grow into a towering tree and hold up the sky for the people of the Ming Dynasty in future generations!
A small amount of chromium ore was quickly sent to Wuyingdian. After Zhu Yunwen verified that it was indeed chromium ore, he immediately ordered Beiping to arrange craftsmen to excavate the chromium ore, and ordered the Engineering Machinery Institute to study the chromium ore and find out its smelting temperature. , the relationship between doping ratio and characteristics...
April 20th.
Zhu Yunwen once again inspected the Longjiang Shipyard. Wan Haiping, Liang Shangcai, Ruan An and others greeted Zhu Yunwen. Gong Shuqiao from the Craftsman College, Tao Zengguang from the Second Artillery Bureau and others also arrived.
This time I came, not because of the steam engine, but because of the iron ship.
In the dock, a pure iron ship nearly five feet long stood proudly without a mast. The boat has a narrow bottom and a wide body, so it is obviously a sea-going vessel.
Wan Haiping, Liang Shangcai and others looked fiercely.
In order to realize the manufacturing of pure iron ships, Longjiang Shipyard gathered the most elite craftsmen, who had a thorough understanding of buoyancy, mastered the relationship between ship design and buoyancy, and calculated the drawings to fill dozens of sacks.
However, it is difficult to master theory, but even more difficult is manufacturing.
The Ming Dynasty did not have the technology to manufacture thick iron plates in large sizes. If it wanted to build an iron ship, it had to solve the problem of the docking of iron plates.
For wooden ships, when laying the bottom of the ship, the wooden boards can be glued and riveted, and the gaps can be filled to avoid leakage and water seepage problems.
But this is the butt between iron and iron. Iron and iron cannot be glued together at all. Riveting can be done, but there are gaps. Even if you try your best to fill them, they cannot be as dense as wood. Just one impact and violent bumps, and the iron plate Cracks will appear between them.
In order to solve this problem, the craftsmen of Longjiang Shipyard adopted the clumsiest, most laborious, and most feasible method:
Steel wrapping method.
This type of steel-cladding method is different from the steel-cladding method used for forging weapons. Instead, the joints between iron plates are heated red, and then overlapped to a certain size. By vigorously hammering, the perfect combination of the joints between the iron plates is achieved. Form an iron plate.
Relying on this indigenous method to overcome the problems of steel forging, cutting, shaping, etc., Longjiang Shipyard finally realized the manufacturing of small pure iron ships, and tested the feasibility of the technology by launching it into the water, and this was how medium-sized ships were created. The emergence of pure iron ships.
Although the pure iron ship Zhu Yunwen saw was only close to five feet in length, its size was already more than half the size of the Dafu ship. In addition, it was made of pure iron and was equipped with the latest steam devices. If firearms were added, , once it is put into practical use, its power will probably be much stronger than that of the Dafu Ship.
The dock entered the water, and the pure iron ship shook like a beast trying to break free.
Woo!
With the roar of steam, the iron ship slowly left the dock and entered the Yangtze River with the help of craftsmen.
Wan Haiping and others said that Zhu Yunwen was not allowed to board the ship. This was the first time for a medium-sized iron ship to be built. Who knew if there would be some problems. If Zhu Yunwen was injured, Longjiang Shipyard could not afford it.
Zhu Yunwen stood on the shore and watched the iron ship sailing smoothly on the river. Although the speed was slow, it was indeed sailing with steam power!
"If equipped with firearms, how far do you think this ship can sail in one hour?"
Zhu Yunwen was very concerned about the practicality of ships.
Wan Haiping thought about it and sighed: "The heavier the ship, the slower the steam power can support it. If sixteen divine machine cannons are installed, this iron ship can sail against the wind and water in one hour, and it will probably not reach thirty miles in one hour." .”
Liang Shangcai saw Zhu Yunwen frowning and quickly added: "If the steam engine is more powerful, it should be able to travel forty or fifty miles in an hour against the wind and water. Currently, the Engineering Machinery Institute is improving the operating shafts and gears, and has also developed lubricants. I think it won’t be long before this ship can travel four to five hundred miles in a day and night.”
Zhu Yunwen smiled and nodded slightly.
If steam engines can support ships to travel five hundred miles day and night, then the Ming Dynasty's control of the sea will reach a new peak, and its support for coastal areas will be more powerful. Even if the north encounters a famine, it can be transferred in a short time. A lot of supplies.
There are also Aizhou Port and Jiugang, which are the territory of the Ming Dynasty. If the sergeants stationed there can see that the Ming Dynasty can ignore the monsoon, come and leave when they want, they will feel more at ease.
"Intensify your research efforts. If you encounter any difficulties, just ask."
Zhu Yunwen looked at the iron ship on trial and was very pleased.
Iron ships will be the main force of the Ming Dynasty's navy in the future, but while the iron ships speed up their sailing, Zheng He's naval fleet is facing a life-and-death test...
