Chapter 712

The roar of steam engine and the smell of metal filled the military workshop.

Briefly speaking about the purpose of this visit, Xiao Ming made a routine inspection of the firearm workshop and artillery workshop.

In the Musketeer workshop, he focused on the production of the lower conical shells. One by one conical shells were cast in the mold, and then polished and calibrated by the craftsman.

The advantages of rifles are obvious, but the requirements for bullets are also strict. Unqualified cone bullets will cause disastrous consequences to soldiers.

Therefore, after each batch of bullets is cast, the craftsman will strictly check. After checking, the craftsman will insert the wooden buttress into the hole behind the conical bullet, which is also to ensure the air tightness during shooting.

Xiao Ming said that it is only a minimum prediction that each craftsman can produce three bullets a day. After all, today's military workshops have skillfully learned assembly line production.

Different craftsmen are responsible for different processes, such as casting, polishing, manufacturing and assembling. These four processes are carried out by these 1000 people.

After inspecting the muskets workshop, he went to the artillery workshop again. Long ago, he asked Chen Qi to study the rifled guns.

After exploration, now the artillery workshop has successfully manufactured the linear gun. According to Chen Qi, the production speed of linear gun is slow, but the range is much longer than before. Now it can hit the shell five miles away.

"Wuli?" Xiao Ming is slightly satisfied with the data. Wuli is 2500 meters. This range should not be lost to Western artillery.

"Give priority to warships with this kind of gun. "Xiao Ming ordered that news from both the French and the British made him alert.

Before the internal troubles were solved, the foreign troubles would come. Xiao Wenxuan left him a terrible mess. Fortunately, it was too far away from the West for France or Britain to deploy large-scale troops here.

Now they are just playing the role of stirring up excrement and making waves in East Asia. Now his main enemies are barbarians, Japanese, Koryo and the king of Chu.

And this is precisely the British. France wanted to use it to contain his target, so with the cooperation of France and the king of Chu, Britain went to Japan.

Xiao Ming is angry with the two western powers for their small actions, but he has nothing to do at present. However, they will not always be the masters of the world.

When the six states popularized industry and the people's livelihood in the North was restored, it was time for him to show his strength.

After inspecting the military workshop, Xiao Ming and Qian Dafu went back to Qingzhou City.

At the same time, under the auspices of Fiji and Pang Yukun, the six states reform movement was also carried out step by step.

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At the gate of Qingzhou chamber of Commerce, Zhu 56, like other businessmen, is waiting for Li Kaiyuan to come out.

The news about private workshops in the newspapers has spread all over the six states, and businessmen who want to get a piece of it immediately rush in.

In the past two years, Zhu Wuliu has made a lot of money because of the white granulated sugar workshop, and his family is also rich. He not only bought a large house in Qingzhou City.

Not only him, but also five wealthy families came out of zhujiacun. These families were all the people who lent Zhu 56 silver when he built the white granulated sugar workshop.

At that time, Zhu Wuliu promised to give them money according to the amount of silver. Because of this, they became rich and envied many people.

"Brother Wu and Liu, there are so many people here today. "Behind Zhu Wu Liu is a skinny young man with a shorter head. His name is shangguanyong, and he is also from Zhujia village.

Zhu 56 looked at the long dragon behind him. There were not 1000 businessmen coming to the chamber of Commerce this time, but there were 700. He said: "this time, it's dangerous. All these businessmen have rich families. I'm afraid we can't compete with them. It's said that the number of steam engines is limited, so we have to wait until they are sold out. "

Shangguan Yong is more anxious than Zhu Wu Liu. Many people in the village didn't participate in the white granulated sugar workshop last time. This time, Zhu Wu Liu is going to set up a workshop again, and each of them has donated money to Zhu Wu Liu in order to get a share of the workshop this time.

After touching his chest, shangguanyong confirms whether the bank note exchanged in Qingzhou bank is still there. The silver on him is the savings of the whole village. If he loses it, he can't change it.

"Brother Wu and brother Liu, you can't go to brother San and brother Si. It's said that brother San and brother Si have been transferred back from Ryukyu and promoted to a captain. If you let him fight, won't the steam engine be more stable this time?" he said.

Zhu Wu Liu's face turned black when he heard that he was in the army. He said, "the second brother is a member of the army. He can't engage in business. If he is known that he is going to be driven out of the army, you are harming him by asking me to find him. If I can't do business, the second brother's military uniform can't be taken off. It's an honor for our old Zhu family. "

Shangguan Yong sneered twice:" I'm not worried. In fact, if I didn't break my leg when I was a child, I would like to be a soldier now. You see how powerful soldiers are now. It's said that soldiers can give priority to many things at the end of every year. Even if they buy things in the shops of Qingzhou chamber of Commerce, they only need to spend half of the money. "

"Of course, if no one was willing to be a soldier before, now it's good to break their heads one by one. "Zhu Wu Liu said with envy.It is said that the two years' war has made a lot of soldiers rich. After each battle, they can get rewards, which makes many troops fight for war.

And the soldiers who came back from the village gave their families tens of taels of silver at a time, which also confirmed this rumor.

When they were in a daze, Li Kaiyuan suddenly appeared at the door of the chamber of Commerce and glanced at the businessman who was waiting. He frowned.

"A total of 100 steam engines will be sold this time, but it's actually a complete set of steam engine production line, that is to say, it's 100 sets of production line. For the sake of fairness, the auction method is adopted for the production line sold this time. Now you can enter the venue to prepare for it. "

after Li Kaiyuan said that, he made a" please "gesture, and businessmen immediately swarmed into the auction hall of the chamber of Commerce.

One by one hot businessmen pass by, and Li Kaiyuan shows a trace of helplessness. In recent days, he has quarreled with Lin Wentao about the 100 production lines.

For him, the more the steam engine is, the better. But Lin Wentao prevaricated him on the ground that he had to sell money to continue to make it.

He only got these 100 sets of steam engines from the steam engine workshop, but now there are more than a few.

Soon, the auction hall was filled with excited businessmen.

Before they came, the government opened to them official workshops such as imitation workshop and sugar workshop. The role of steam engine in these workshops impressed them.

The businessman who pursues profit immediately sees the value contained in it, and this is the scene of today.

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