Because of the People's Army's talent absorption exam, there are several cases in Guangzhou like Lu Yu and his friends who cut off their robe and righteousness. More of them are people who do not intend to join the People's Army. Some people also want to join the People's Army but are worried that the People's Army will be wiped out by the Ming army.

However, the book "Common Knowledge" (traditional version) sold in Wenhua Bookstore is a big deal. Almost everyone can read it. Even Qiao Rong, the father of the Qiao sisters, also took one to watch it. The content in the book is really curious. Even if you can't tell the truth or falsehood, it is still OK to read it as an interesting thing.

In addition, the contents of common sense books are indispensable to attracting heated discussions from many literati and scholars.

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Foshan Town and Foshan Arsenal, new hydraulic machine tools have been added to the production of tiger head guns, which has made many craftsmen look forward to it.

The most core and difficult part of making a tiger-headed gun is the barrel. First, the craftsman beat a piece of iron into a rough barrel by hand, and then the craftsman uses a human machine tool to drill and grind the inner wall of the rough barrel bit by bit. The barrel after drilling and grinding can be used as a smoothbore gun.

But the tiger head rifle is a rifled rifle, and it also requires rifling the barrel. This step is not less difficult than the previous step.

The first step in building the barrel cannot be changed for the time being, but the second and third steps can be changed. With the efforts of Tang Bei and Wang Daechui's research teams, hydraulic machine tools with the same function have been researched and manufactured to replace human machine tools.

With one hydraulic power and one human power, people will be tired, but water can always flow, and the "power" of water is much greater than that of people. In the two steps of drilling and grinding the barrel and rifling, the efficiency will be greatly improved.

With more hydraulic machine tools added, some craftsmen can move to the first step in building the barrel. The barrel output increases, and the production of tiger head guns increases.

Wang Dachui was also very moved by creating a hydraulic machine tool by himself. He did not expect that hydraulic machine tools are much more useful than human machine tools.

As a member of the People's Army, Wang Dachui can be said to have witnessed the birth, growth and rise of the People's Army with his own eyes. The tiger-head spear created by Hutouzhai made great contributions to the People's Army's defeat of the Ming army.

Wang Dachui knew very well that as long as he was equipped with enough tiger-headed guns, the People's Army could overthrow the Ming court. The key is that it was too difficult to build the tiger-headed gun and the output was relatively small.

Since the People's Army occupied the territory, we have been constantly looking for craftsmen to send them to Hutouzhai to increase the production of Hutouzhai. The arsenal has also developed from one to three now. Even the Hutouzhai Arsenal and the Yong'an County Arsenal combined are far from comparable to the Foshan Arsenal today.

It won’t take long before the Hutouzhai Arsenal located in the mountains will be closed.

Although Foshan Arsenal is large and can produce more tiger-headed spears, it seems that grenades have greater effect in the battle between the People's Army and the Ming Army, but there are still too few tiger-headed spears.

Wang Dahui felt that if the People's Army could have a unit of 10,000 people equipped with tiger-headed spears, it could easily defeat the enemy ten times his own on the battlefield.

Nowadays, with the addition of hydraulic machine tools, the production of tiger-headed guns will continue to increase. More tiger-headed guns will be equipped with the People's Army. The People's Army's strength will increase and they will also have the confidence to face the Ming army that is constantly gathering.

Looking at the hydraulic machine tools, Wang Dachui's confidence in the People's Army overthrowing the Ming court greatly increased.

However, hydraulic machine tools also have defects. Hydraulic machine tools must be built near rivers. This is the site limitation. For example, the Hutouzhai Arsenal located in the mountains and the arsenal in Yong'an County cannot use hydraulic machine tools.

Wang Daichui is very much looking forward to the steam-powered machine tools described by Tang Bei. The steam machine tools are much smaller than hydraulic machine tools and there is no site limit. That is the best machine tool. Wang Daichui has decided to join the research of steam engines, but now it is necessary to build and improve hydraulic machine tools. The research on steam engines will have to wait. It takes several years for the steam machine tools to be researched.

So Wang Dahui now puts his focus on hydraulic machine tools and leads people to create more hydraulic machine tools for the Foshan Arsenal to manufacture tiger head guns.

At present, one of the focus of the People's Military Government is Foshan Arsenal, followed by Hutouzhai Arsenal, Yong'an County Arsenal, iron ore and shipyards located in various parts of Guangdong.

Hutouzhai Arsenal and Yong'an County Arsenal skipped, because the addition of a large number of coolies, the ore output in various subways was effectively increased, even exceeding the iron smelting capacity in various places.

The iron smelting workshop is built near the iron ore to facilitate iron smelting. The rough iron from the iron smelting workshop is transported to Foshan and further smelted by the iron smelting workshop in Foshan.

Minister of Industry Wang Mu plans to select locations in various parts of Guangdong to establish several large steel plants to smel iron ore and increase steel production. However, the duration of this plan will reach several years, and there is a relatively important prerequisite, which is railway tracks.

With railroads, even if there are no trains, carriages will be allowed to run on the railroads, and the efficiency of cargo transportation will be greatly improved, making it easier to send iron ore from all over the country to steel plants.

The shipyard after the steel plant can maintain the status quo. The People's Army has no plans to expand overseas for the time being, and is not even very interested in overseas trade. It is better to develop military forces to overthrow the Ming court as soon as possible when there is time.

However, if overseas expansion is not carried out now, it will continue to be carried out in the future. The shipyard must retain it and continue to train craftsmen and even shipbuilders.

Building roads and building hydraulic facilities are all matters of the Ministry of Works, but recently Fang Nan handed over two research tasks to the Ministry of Works and asked the Ministry of Works to draw manpower to complete these two tasks as soon as possible.

There are two research tasks, one is to study cement and the other is to study glass.

The main functions of cement are civil engineering projects such as road construction, water conservancy facilities, and house construction. With the addition of cement, the efficiency of these civil engineering projects can be improved and the quality will be improved.

For example, when building roads, in this era, road construction mainly involves filling the ground, dragging a mill to crush the road surface, and at most a layer of small stones are laid. This is the best official road, and it is not as luxurious as paving the road with bricks.

This kind of official road is still difficult to pass when it rains. If it is a cement road, it will not be muddy at all on rainy days.

There are four main functions of glass, one is used as a mirror, one is used to improve the light entering the house when doors and windows, one is ground into a telescope, and the other is ground into a microscope.

Cement and glass are of great importance. If Fang Nan was born in a wealthy family, he would easily become the richest man under the Meiji with cement and glass, and he could also use cement or glass technology to make a move with the powerful.

Primary cement technology and glass technology are not difficult, and even Fang Nan will participate in the research to point out the direction for the project team.

For Fang Nan, the first purpose of studying cement and glass is not to make money. The emergence of cement and glass will have a significant impact on the People's Army's military, people's livelihood, industry and other aspects. This is the most important point.
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