Sun Chengzong's power was indeed extraordinary. The censors of the Donglin Party immediately gathered their voices together and did not even dare to write the impeachment memorial. Even if Qian Qianyi had thousands of plans, he could only stop waiting for the next opportunity. If he dared to instigate these people to cause trouble, he would probably be the one who was unlucky.

As soon as the censors retired, the work of each department immediately returned to normal. The Ministry of Revenue came to Daozong immediately began to allocate silver. Bi Maokang from the Ministry of Works also began to organize people to build military factories. Xu Guangqi from the Ministry of Rites also remembered that he was still an imperial teacher and finally dared to enter the palace.

The construction of the military factory has finally begun. According to the original plan, a small blast furnace must be built first, and a few good low-carbon steels will be refined first. Whether it is a barrel, a drill, or a knife, steel is required. No matter it is without steel, nothing can be built, so the small blast furnace must be built.

The small blast furnace does not take much time or many people, and the main personnel are still used to build the factory. In the planning, the first thing to build the machining workshop is built, because now, except for the drilling machine, the other beds are still installed in Zhu Cijing's mind, and there is not even a model. Therefore, the machining workshop must be built as soon as possible and other machine tools are fully developed. Otherwise, when the military factory is built, there will be only one drilling machine, which will not be able to create a flintlock rifle.

This development is actually Zhu Cijiu teaches Xu Guangqi and others the machine tool drawings in his mind in a guided manner. Zhu Cijiu first taught the lathe. This lathe has a nickname called "industrial mother machine". Why is it called that? Because this lathe actually has many functions of machine tools. As long as there is one lathe, it can slowly make other machine tools, just like a mother giving birth to a child. Moreover, the higher the accuracy of the lathe, the higher the precision of the machine tool is.

The lathe is actually not complicated. It is almost the same to exchange the left and right sides of the drilling machine. In other words, the drilling machine is the drill bit but the parts do not move, and the lathe is the parts do not move. Of course, to make the parts not move, there is also a cylindrical clamp to clamp the parts firmly. Also, the lathe can usually be automatically fed, which is not difficult. Just add a pinion driven by a piston to the rack.

Zhu Cijiu sorted out his ideas and tried to find out the common points between the lathe and the drilling machine, and then began to teach a group of confidants.

Xu Guangqi and the others really understood it as soon as they heard it. There was a ready-made drilling machine there, so they changed the left and right sides, and then added two parts, who wouldn't know how to do it!

The machining workshop cannot be built in one or two days. In order to save time, Zhu Cijing decided to make a lathe model in the side hall of Qianqing Palace, and try to make a wood or something to see if there is anything that needs improvement. When the lathe is finalized, the parts will be started to be processed in other workshops of the Ministry of Works. In this way, once the machining workshop is built, the formal lathe can be assembled immediately. With the lathe, other machine tools can be built soon.

Xu Guangqi and the others thought of a way faster. Anyway, they have already mastered the drilling machine, so it doesn’t matter whether there is a model or not. So they can just modify it based on the drilling machine model, so that just processing fixtures and pinions are enough.

Zhu Cijing naturally had no objection. As long as they could understand these machine tools thoroughly, he would not interfere too much. He wanted these people to use their brains more.

The lathe model was soon completed. Xu Guangqi and the others saw the magical automatic drilling, and were all stunned. In the era of pure manual processing, this semi-automatic machinery simply subverted their cognition. It turned out that processing things could be played like this! People don’t have to move at all, put the parts clips on and adjust the position, and then press the switch, and the machine tool will automatically start processing!

Although it was the first time to make a lathe, there was a drilling machine model in front of it, and most of the parts used were used from the original drilling machine, so the machine tool model was very effective. The wood cylinders produced by the car were many times smoother than those of hand-made ones.

This is an extraordinary improvement. When the inner wall is smooth, the sealing performance will be strengthened. Once the sealing property is strengthened, the piston will be more powerful, the movement will be smoother, and the accuracy of the machine tool will also be improved. In addition, the outer wall has been carved around, and the entire cylinder looks like a regular product. Unlike manual processing, the rough appearance does not look like a high-tech product.

After seeing the magic of the lathe, Xu Guangqi and others became more enthusiastic. Without Zhu Cijiu's urging, they all focused on the new lathe. After understanding the principles thoroughly, they began to improve continuously. In less than two months, the lathe was basically finalized. When the machining workshop was built, all the parts of the lathe and drilling machine were processed.

After the assembly and commissioning of the first lathe and the first drilling machine, Xu Guangqi and the others were so excited that they were so excited that they invited Zhu Cijiong to the military factory to press the boot button for the first official production of the machine tool!

If it were in modern times, it would be normal for a head of state to go out, but it would be different in ancient times. The emperor would have to guard tens of thousands of people just after leaving the palace, and there were no other eunuchs, palace maids, and accompanying officials.

Although it was troublesome, Zhu Cijing still wanted to go out to the palace to see. He had been in the Ming Dynasty for so long, and even the civilians outside didn't know what they looked like. How could they manage the country in the future like this?

He originally thought that Sun Chengzong and King Xin Zhu Youjian would object, and even if he didn't object, he would dissuade him. Unexpectedly, when he said that he had no intention of leaving the palace, the two of them had no objection at all. Sun Chengzong was still continuing to review the memorials, but Zhu Youjian replied, but it was not to dissuade him, but asked him to inform Luo Yangxing and arrange a guard along the way.

It’s not a big mistake for the two of them to react. The emperors of the Ming Dynasty love to leave the palace and it’s a good idea to go shopping in the capital. Many emperors like to go shopping in the Mongolian grasslands, but as they stroll around, two of them couldn’t come back!

Since no one objected, Zhu Cijiu naturally agreed to go there happily.

The next day, just after the morning court, Zhu Cijiu hurriedly changed into a light dragon robe and couldn't wait to pull Qin Mingyue off. Although he didn't call the official to accompany him, the scene was still terrifying:

The entire team is afraid there are two or three miles of factories. The five thousand Jinyiwei is in front and the five thousand Shenjiying Temple is behind. There are many palace maids and eunuchs in the middle. There are many Jinyiwei along the way from West Chang'an Street to Wanggong Factory. It is really a place where flags are like clouds, covering the sky and the sun.

Zhu Cijiu sat on the dragon chariot carried by thirty-two eunuchs in the middle of the team. There was a huge canopy above his head. Behind him were two masters, Qin Mingyue and Cao Huachun. There were also the king of Xin Zhu Youjian, Grand Tutor Sun Chengzong, Zhongzhen Hou Qin Liangyu, and the commander of the Jinyiwei Luo Yangxing beat the horse to follow him. There was no need to post a notice. Everyone in the capital knew that the emperor was on a patrol.

This is awesome. The whole capital is in an uproar. Everyone is desperately rushing to the streets full of Jinyiwei. If they can see the emperor's long face, they will have the capital to brag in their entire life.

Zhu Cijing looked at the common people kneeling on both sides of the road, and felt so proud. Only now did he truly realize the dignity of the ancient emperors. These are all his people. As the saying goes, they don’t know if they don’t look at them. They were shocked when they saw them. Even if the roads were densely covered with people, at most, there were only about 100,000. This scene was already extremely spectacular. The entire Ming Dynasty had a population of nearly 200 million and 200 million people! He was the co-lord of these 200 million people!

The emperors of the Ming Dynasty were relatively friendly to the people, and they did not have the kind of civilians in the Qing Dynasty who could only lie down in front of the emperor and could not offend Long Yan's bad rules. So the civilians on both sides of the road knelt there straight, stretched their necks and looked up at their emperor, as if they were still admiring something in their mouths.

Zhu Cijiu really wanted to hear their praises, but at the beginning it was West Chang'an Street, which was a bit wide and the people didn't dare to make loud noises, so he couldn't hear what they were praising.

After walking through West Chang'an Street, the road began to narrow. Zhu Cijing finally heard the people's praise for him, basically the same sentence: "Wow, the emperor is so cute!"

It turned out that these ordinary people were "praising" this! Zhu Cijiong's face was suddenly full of darkness, but Qin Mingyue behind her couldn't help but cover her mouth and giggled.
Chapter completed!