Researching and building hydraulic machine tools is not something that Wang Daichik can do alone. Wang Daichik brought a few craftsmen and Tang Bei to join him.

Previously, Wang Dachui brought people to build human machine tools, grenades, and tiger-headed guns, while Tang Bei brought a group of people to study the hydraulic machine tools first, and even went to the outside world to see the water truck.

Water wheels are still closely related to hydraulic machine tools. Researching water wheels will be of great help to research and build hydraulic machine tools.

Tang Bei was a little surprised. When studying the water wheel, Tang Bei found many hydraulic equipment, water mills for pounding rice, and water mills for grinding the surface. Of course, the most common one is the water wheel used for irrigation.

Water trucks transport water, but water mills and water mills use running water to drive the movement of equipment and exert force, treating grain, which saves manpower.

Tang Bei, who lived in the mountains since childhood, had never been exposed to hydraulic equipment before. Now, when seeing these hydraulic equipment, he quickly understood the functions and principles of hydraulic machine tools. If you use hydraulic power instead of human power, people will be tired, but water can keep flowing, allowing the hydraulic machine tools to operate continuously.

Understanding the functions and principles of hydraulic machine tools, Tang Bei's team's research progress on hydraulic machine tools has greatly accelerated, and even tried to make models with wood.

Wang Dachui came out and brought a few craftsmen and Tang Bei together. After seeing several hydraulic equipment, Wang Dachui suddenly realized that using water to drive machine tools is much easier than manpower.

However, hydraulic machine tools have a big disadvantage compared to human machine tools, that is, the entire structure of hydraulic machine tools will be very large together, much larger than human machine tools. In other words, it takes more time to build a hydraulic machine tool than to create a human machine tool with the same function.

But it is worth building it with the work of the hydraulic machine tool. In the next period of time, Wang Dachui, Tang Bei and others will stay by the river, thinking about creating the first hydraulic machine tool as soon as possible.

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As the People's Army occupied most areas of Guangdong, it inevitably contacted foreigners.

For example, the Portuguese, this year was the 14th year of Wanli, and also in 1586 AD. In 1553, the Portuguese obtained the right to live in Haojing. Next year, the Portuguese will officially occupy Haojing through diplomatic documents.

Fang Nan only said one thing about this: "The territory of China cannot be lost at all."

In Guangdong, in addition to the Portuguese, there are also people from other Western countries, mainly maritime merchants who come to the Ming Dynasty for commercial activities, transporting a ship of specialties from Western countries to the Ming Dynasty, and transporting a ship of tea, porcelain, etc. back to Western countries, you can earn more than ten times the principal.

Although there are various dangers on the sea, for the sake of wealth, I don’t know how many people have been embarking on this path one after another.

The People's Army has already contacted foreigners, and the People's Army needs a way to deal with foreigners, whether to be friendly, hostile or ignore them.

Fang Nan once thought about this issue seriously.

If the people of our race are not in a different mind. If the People's Army is in good faith with foreigners, then the People's Army has something to ask for foreigners. But where does the People's Army need help from foreigners?

Fang Nan thought about it carefully and did not expect any need.

The firearms in Western countries are developing very fast. The most advanced artillery cannons in this era were the first to be produced by Western countries. The muskets of Western countries are also more powerful than those of the Ming army.

But the People's Army has more powerful firearms, and the tiger-headed rifle is one of the most powerful muskets before the advent of the breech gun era. However, due to technology, the tiger-headed rifle still has some improvements.

The Folang machine cannon used by the People's Army cannons in large quantities and grenades can only be found in Foshan.

The People's Army does not need firearms from Western countries, and Western countries are so far away, it will take more than half a year to transport firearms back.

Make good deals with foreigners for business and obtain a lot of gold and silver?

There is no need to consider this at all. Gold and silver are precious metals and are used as transaction currency. As long as the credit is sufficient, paper money can be used.

For a businessman, obtaining a large amount of gold and silver represents the rapid growth of personal wealth, but for a country, a large amount of gold and silver inflow is not necessarily a good thing. With little change in output, a large amount of gold and silver inflow will only cause gold and silver to depreciate unless it can be traded quickly with another country and use gold and silver to purchase various outputs from this country.

Obviously, the People's Army today may not even be needed when it may overthrow the Ming Dynasty and establish a country in the future.

After careful consideration, Fang Nan understood that the People's Army did not need to make friends with foreigners, and the People's Army did not get much useful things from foreigners.

Not having to make friends does not mean that the People's Army will be hostile to foreigners. At least the People's Army cannot be hostile to foreigners now. The Ming court is the great enemy of the People's Army, and the People's Army does not want to have a few more enemies.

Therefore, when dealing with foreigners under the People's Army, Fang Nan only requires foreigners to abide by the People's Army's laws and regulations. Foreigners who violate the law will be punished. Foreigners who abide by the laws and regulations can conduct business activities normally.

As for the Portuguese to occupy the Hokkien, the People's Army would not allow it anyway.

Previously, Haojing was the Ming court official, and the Portuguese had only the right to live in Haojing. Now Haojing is controlled by the People's Army, and the grape people still have only the right to live.

The Portuguese were very panicked about the emergence of the People's Army. Some people fled directly to the sea by boat, while some people had no time to escape.

What the Portuguese did? As long as there was no violation, the People's Army would not care about it. Even if they left, it didn't matter. However, after seeing that the People's Army did not attack them, the Portuguese returned to Haojing. Some Portuguese even took the initiative to contact the People's Army and wanted to ask what was going on, but the People's Army ignored the Portuguese.

A few days later, the Portuguese in Haojing learned a little about the situation of the People's Army and realized that the People's Army and the Ming Dynasty were enemies.

Some Portuguese secretly mocked the People's Army. They knew that the Ming Dynasty had a vast territory and a large population, and its strength was more than ten times stronger than Portugal. They did not think that the People's Army could defeat the Ming Dynasty, and the Ming Dynasty would soon wipe out the People's Army.

However, some Portuguese believe that this is an opportunity and may be able to gain some benefits from the People's Army.

The People's Army still ignored the Portuguese who took the initiative to contact.

Although the People's Army only occupied most of Guangdong and was far less powerful than the Ming court, Fang Nan occasionally had a distracted mind and thought about the scene after the People's Army overthrew the Ming Dynasty.

Compared with the entire earth, the territory of the Ming Dynasty is still too small. Once it is affected by natural disasters on a large scale, turmoil will follow. The demise of the Ming Dynasty is due to the Little Ice Age.

If a country's territory is large enough, or even the entire earth is a country, then a natural disaster occurs in one area on the earth, but other areas will not be affected, and one side will provide support from all sides when it is difficult. In this case, even if a relatively severe natural disaster occurs, the impact on the country will not be too great.

Such thoughts were suppressed by Fang Nan, and even the Ming Dynasty did not overthrow it. Thinking about these things was useless.
Chapter completed!