Just after the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, Wang Dachui finally arrived in Guangzhou City with a group of craftsmen.

As soon as Wang Daechui arrived in Guangzhou City, the Minister of Works Wang Mu brought Wang Mu to see Fang Nan.

"teacher."

"Grandmaster."

"Director Wang has worked hard all the way." Fang Nan said with concern to Wang Dachui. The factory director is Wang Dachui's identity, and his full name is the director of Hutouzhai Arsenal, or the director of the First Arsenal of the People's Army, and his rank is at the deputy county level.

"No, no, no, no," Wang Dachui replied hurriedly.

Fang Nan's words made Wang Dachu feel terrified. Fang Nan was no longer an ordinary mountain citizen in the mountains. The People's Army had occupied most of Guangdong. Fang Nan's identity was infinitely higher in Wang Dachu's heart, as if ordinary people had met the emperor.

There are many people who have changed like Wang Dahui. This is a change brought about by his status, and Fang Nan is unable to change this again. Fortunately, Fang Nan and his students are basically the same as before.

"Director Wang, your next task will be very heavy. Foshan Town is the place with the most blacksmiths in Guangdong and even the world. I want you to build a new arsenal in Foshan Town to create more tiger-headed guns for the People's Army."

"Ensure that the task is completed." Wang Dachui said very seriously.

Fang Nan nodded and continued: "Building a new arsenal is only one of the first things, and there is a second important task. Come and see."

Fang Nan led Wang Dachui, Wang Mu walked to a table, and then Fang Nan found a few drawings and spread them onto the table.

When Wang Mu first saw the drawing, he realized some content on the drawing, such as the largest part outlined on the drawing was a water truck.

"You all know that the most troublesome thing about building a tiger-headed gun is the two processes of polishing the barrel and rifling, which is very labor-intensive, so I want you to build this machine to speed up the efficiency of polishing the barrel and rifling.

This is a water truck that drives the water truck to rotate through the flow of water, and then through here, let it rotate, and then step by step... and finally let our machine tool turn itself."

Fang Nan’s drawings are a hydraulic device that turns a human machine tool into a hydraulic machine tool.

Compared with human-powered machine tools, hydraulic machine tools undoubtedly save manpower greatly. With the same number of people, more hydraulic machine tools can be added, and the arsenal can create more tiger-headed guns.

Human-powered machine tools, hydraulic-powered machine tools and steam-powered machine tools are definitely the most efficient and easy-to-use steam-powered machine tools. However, with the current situation of the People's Army, if you want to study steam engines, it may be that the third encirclement and suppression of the People's Army in the Ming Dynasty began, and the first steam engine was built.

Even if the steam engine is built, it does not mean that the steam engine can be put into use. If you want to create a steam engine that meets the requirements, it will not be possible in a short time.

It takes a lot of time to study steam engines, and this hydraulic machine tool has become the best choice for the People's Army at present. In the past, there was no suitable place to use hydraulic machine tools in Hutouzhai and Yong'an County. Foshan is located in the hinterland of the Pearl River Water System. It has developed shipping and abundant water resources, so it has the conditions to use hydraulic machine tools.

In fact, the advantages of Foshan's abundant water resources are also one of the important reasons why Foshan's smelting industry has developed.

Foshan does not produce iron. Foshan is located in the alluvial plain of the Pearl River Delta and there are no decent iron ore resources nearby.

"Foshan Ming and Qing Smelting" records that Foshan's iron ore mainly comes from Luoding, Dong'an, Nanxiong, Shaozhou, Lianzhou, Huaiji and Yangjiang.

Volume 35 of "Gongguang Salt Law" also records: "The iron in the world is better than Guangdong, and the essence of Guangxia iron is Luoding. Its iron is smooth and soft, and can be used as a thread. However, the casting of the vessel is also better than Foshan. Therefore, the iron in Guangzhou, Nanxiong, Huizhou, Luoding, Lianzhou, and Huaiji are all lost to Foshan Yun."

It can be said that there are many iron ore in other areas of Guangdong, and the iron produced by iron ore is of high quality.

Foshan does not smelve iron in person, iron ore is smelted in the production areas. In northern Guangdong and western Guangdong, there are limestone mountains everywhere, with huge limestone reserves. It is very convenient to smelve iron ore. The crude iron produced is transported through the Xijiang River and Beijiang River to Foshan before further processing.

Iron smelting cannot be separated from fuel. The Pearl River Delta region does not produce coal, and the main fuel for iron smelting in Foshan is charcoal.

Charcoal is a solid fuel formed by incomplete combustion of wood or pyrolyzed under air condition. Foshan is located in the subtropical zone and densely covered with forests, and the raw materials for producing charcoal are inexhaustible.

Although the calorific value of charcoal is slightly lower than that of the commonly used fuel coke in the steel industry, it is enough to melt steel. Hutouzhai also uses charcoal to smelify iron.

Building hydraulic machine tools is a task that Fang Nan gave to the Ministry of Industry. Wang Daechui belongs to the Ministry of Industry. Researchers from the Ministry of Industry continue to study hydraulic machine tools, and then Wang Daechui himself created it.

Hydraulic machinery has existed since ancient times. There were many hydraulic machinery in the Ming Dynasty, and it was not difficult to build. As long as a qualified hydraulic machine tool was built, it could be quickly promoted and used. It should have been launched sooner than the Ming army launched the third encirclement and suppression of the People's Army.

Building a hydraulic machine tool is Wang Dahui's second task, and Fang Nan gave the Ministry of Industry a third task: to quickly restore the production order of the metro ore in various subways in Guangdong and expand the output of crude iron and steel.

Steel is needed to build tiger-headed guns, tiger-headed guns, Furang machine cannons, grenades and other cold weapons. There is no need to expand the thick iron, and the steel output is enough, but in Fang Nan's opinion, it is far from enough, because Fang Nan has a big plan in his mind.

Steel is the foundation of industrial development. Without enough steel, it is difficult for industry to develop, provided that steel is used.

As early as the Qin Dynasty, there was a wooden rail road similar to modern railways. It used a special carriage to drive on wooden rail roads, and the friction was greatly reduced. The horse could pull a lot of goods at a time, and the driving speed was not comparable to that of ordinary roads.

The wooden rails of wooden rails need to be made of hard wood and also need to be treated with anti-corrosion, which is more troublesome than directly building a railway with steel.

The People's Army has no trains yet, but it can build railways in advance. With railways, the speed of transportation of personnel and materials through railways can be greatly improved.

Building a railway will definitely cost a lot of manpower, but there is not much problem for the People's Army. During the first and second encirclements of the People's Army in the Ming Dynasty, the People's Army captured a large number of Ming troops. Some of the Ming troops were transformed into the People's Army and some of the Ming troops were allowed to return home to be peasants, but some were used as coolies.

In addition to the coolies who captured the identity of the Ming army, there are also those who criticize the powerful and defamed the ugly ones as coolies after searching the big ones. There are also a large number of gangsters and gangsters who become coolies. It can be said that the People's Army has a large number of coolies in their hands, and even these coolies have become a trouble for the People's Army. There are not so many coolies available in the Hutouzhai mine.

Now that we have improved the rough iron in various places, the steel output requires a lot of coolies to mine. This can also use a lot of coolies to build railways, which is very easy to solve the problem of excessive coolies.
Chapter completed!