Chapter 70: The Strike

The manufacturing of the clock has undoubtedly become an opportunity for Ye’s workshop to improve the overall technical level by a level. After getting the drawings of the simple timer drawn by Ye Tao, the workshop made the things in just a few hours. When sending the seemingly simple primary product to Chun Nuanju, the second senior brother Zhao Dazhu praised Ye Tao again. Now, as the Ye’s workshop goes further and further out of the field of carpentry, more and more things need to be accurately timed. Although the clock is very useful, it is not as small as this small one, and can count down at most an hour.

The timer is convenient. Moreover, the timer is simple in structure, which is most suitable for apprentices who have just joined the watch workshop. Zhao Dazhu is not a person who is good at finding product business opportunities, but he is dull and introverted, but he always silently considers the problems from the perspective of the workshop and constantly improves the complex and sophisticated technical system of the Ye Family Workshop. It is precisely because Zhao Dazhu is responsible for the headquarters of the Ye Family Workshop in Yicheng and constantly cultivates highly skilled apprentices. Ye Laogeng and Guan Haishan can leave Yicheng and run to Danyang with confidence, and stay in Danyang and show off their fists and feet for the time being.

After Zhao Dazhu finished speaking about his views on this small timer, he realized that the atmosphere around him seemed a bit strange. In the quiet room where spring was warm in winter and cool in summer, there were more than a dozen young people sitting in groups of three or three. Their clothes were obviously very exquisite, but perhaps because of practical reasons, they were not much more gorgeous than the coarse cloth clothes on Zhao Dazhu. In the window with the best light, sitting cross-legged around a small table was the Governor Peng Detian and the Admiral of the Navy Min Yue.

Zhao Dazhu, who threw the timer to the young people to play with, felt that he was a little aware of it, hurried over to greet him.

"Ye Tao, why did you make that little thing? Except for your workshop, you may not sell well, right?" Peng Detian looked at the young people who were gathering together and asked with a smile.

"Sir, this thing is very useful." Zhao Dazhu thought for a while and said, "The workshop is busy with work. Now there is some lunch break after lunch, so let everyone rest. Set that small timer for half an hour, wake yourself up when you fall, and you won't miss the work order."

Peng Detian and Min Yue laughed. Although Zhao Dazhu had a little bit of a simple mind, this is a good idea. In yamen at all levels, there are too many people who have developed the habit of napping by various things, which is an effective way to avoid oversleeping. After all, the clock cannot be available in every room, and most of them are placed in places like the lobby or study where the scene needs to be supported, but this small timer can be carried with you.

Under the association, although timers are needed in places like workshops, there are many opportunities for others to set a standard of time for themselves at any time. Peng Detian said that he gave the visitor half a moment to explain the situation, but he was fooled and wasted a lot of time and missed other things. Timers. Peng Detian wanted to get one with him.

Ye Tao said indifferently: "As long as it is useful, you won't be afraid of not being able to sell it. Now there are too many things to sell, so you don't care about these ones or two. At the very least, with this thing, there will be no only a few things in the Tissot watch shop. The orders for clocks have been scheduled until next year, and there must be some things to sell in the store."

Peng Detian nodded and said, "Okay, then let's talk about it. What do you think of the thing we are talking about?"

Peng Detian and Min Yue came to find Ye Tao together, obviously they would not just come to this quiet room to have a breath of wind and drink tea. They brought a fantasy, a fantasy that made Ye Tao's heart beat.

After the bell was released, Peng Detian moved out of the entire port area to build a port office and three offices, all of which were placed. In addition, he also formulated more strict and standardized regulations for the port area with the officials who were originally responsible for docking affairs and tax officials. After a specific time reference, the arrangements for a series of matters such as docking plans, loading and unloading plans and tax checks have been accurate. Over the past few days, Yicheng Port District has become more and more orderly and efficient, but it has become more and more busy. The current problem is not only to let the officials of the port office know the time and follow the timetable to do things. It also requires the cooperation of ship owners and large merchants from all sides in terms of time, otherwise the timetable cannot be further implemented.

So, Peng Detian and Min Yue came up with an idea to build a large enough clock, which should be at least six to seven floors. The top floor is open on all sides and there are four surfaces, showing the current time to the entire port area. The clock will be heard every quarter of the hour, and the time prompt will almost immediately make the port area more efficient and orderly. Such buildings will become a symbol of Yicheng Port and a symbol of Yicheng's prosperity and prosperity.

This is the bell tower. Ye Tao's mind kept coming up with the Gothic buildings with towering steep roofs that left a deep impression on him when he visited Europe. The metal crosses standing on the steep roofs can indeed give people a sacred feeling. The bell tower that can become a landmark building in a place, and the melodious bells can make the entire local residents feel a strange sense of stability and belonging. In Shanghai, where he is most familiar with, the bells of the customs building rang from the 20th century to the 21st century, and are still talked about by many people, and are still a bright landscape.

What Peng Detian and Min Yue planned together was not only the bell tower, but also a landmark building with considerable practical significance, and it was also the "political achievement project" of local officials. However, their political achievement project seems to be worthy of Ye Tao's support. However, the problem is. The clock and bell tower are far from being magnified several times.

Although traditional Chinese wooden structures have been pushed to a peak height by Ye Tao and Dai Yuege, to be honest, they are not suitable for building such a considerable building. This is not a pagoda building, with limited structural load bearing, especially the top several floors. The largest load bearing is the material weight of the building itself. The top of the bell tower has to be installed with extremely complex structures and considerable weight. To be able to see the entire port area, the weight of the huge dial and pointer alone is enough. Although Ye Tao has a good foundation in architecture and has a lot of experience in architectural design, he is not sure of using wooden structures to load such a burden. After all, his research on Chinese wooden structures is only at the application level rather than at the academic level. He can naturally allow wooden structures to load such weight, but from any perspective, such a solution cannot be considered economical.

Thinking of the bell tower, another classic image appeared in Ye Tao's mind: Big Ben. This example is so classic that Ye Tao actually has rough drawings of the entire building in his mind. Big Ben on the Thames started operating in 1859, except for the occasional failure, until Ye Tao was bombarded with the world he was familiar with. Ye Tao felt that perhaps the building as high as 98 meters would be very suitable for Peng Detian and Min Yue after slightly revision. This would require modification, which naturally includes some detailed designs and the appearance of the building. The appearance of the Big Ben was copied comprehensively and the spire of the Gothic building was born in Yicheng first. That... it was really a bit too spoof.

As for the structure of the bell room in the bell tower, Ye Tao felt that there was no need to copy the design of the 19th century. It could completely improve the timing accuracy of the bell room, and separate the power of the pointer on the outer clock surface from the power system of the bell room. Whether in terms of maintenance simplicity or the tolerance of the entire bell tower and the bell room to withstand changes in the external environment, it would be much better.

Ye Tao asked Lu Dan, who was leaning against the pillar, to get paper and pen for him. He quickly outlined the image of the Big Ben Clock Tower, the most intuitive image in his mind on the paper. After throwing the pen down, he thought of a problem and shook his head. He said, "Sir, is it difficult to do this bell tower? It is not easy to say it is simple."

Min Yue glanced at the sketch and immediately felt something was wrong. He had never seen a Western-style building and felt that the building was as sharp as a spear standing on the ground. Although the appearance of the building was a bit strange, it was still very coordinated. However, he noticed something from the size of the window and the proportion of the entire building. After carefully looking at the sketch, Min Yue asked: "Nephew, how high are you thinking about the bell tower?" Min Yue and Peng Detian calculated that the bell tower should be at least five to six floors, because they were considering that the wooden building was not high, but as many people should see the bell tower as much as possible. These five to six floors are the minimum limit. If they can be built higher, they will naturally not refuse. However, is it really possible that what Ye Tao painted on the map?

Ye Tao calculated it in his heart and said, "It's about 280 feet high." The numbers he reported not only shocked Min Yue and Peng Detian, but also made the intern officers who were quite interested in what they discussed in the quiet room stunned. 280 feet. How high should it be? If such a tall building can be built, how high should you raise your head to see the top?

Peng Detian thought about it carefully and said, "What should I use for such a tall building? Is it not reliable to make it with wood?"

"No, no wood." Ye Tao picked up the pen again and drew the frame structure of the building on paper. While explaining the structure and function of the building to Peng Detian and Min Yue in the simplest language as possible, explaining how to use cast iron to create a structural frame for this bell tower, how to burn special bricks to meet the needs of the external wall of the bell tower, how to have a relationship between the bell room and the clock face, how to install the big bell used to report time, and in addition to the bell room, pendulum, clock face, and clock report, why do you also need a set of equipment for correcting time and maintenance in the bell tower... This time, although Peng Detian and Min

Yue didn't know much about this knowledge, but he also understood it. In that moment, Ye Tao had already fully understood what they meant, and had a general framework for the entire bell tower plan in his mind, and even had a certain construction plan. Such talent was more than outstanding? There were anecdotes of literati who had made poems within a few steps, but that was just anecdotes. Without picking on quality, it was not difficult for literati to write crooked poems casually. But in an instant, it was possible that he could have such a grand idea and think about how to achieve the idea. Looking at this world, perhaps only Ye Tao could do it.

The towering bell tower spire could not compete with Ye Tao's brilliant light.

After hearing this, Peng Detian asked, "...Since you already have a sabbatical case, what's the difficulty of this bell tower?"

Ye Tao said bluntly: "Money! I have no basic budget for this bell tower now."

Ye Tao, who has supervised many gardens, is now an expert in engineering management. Since he said he was unsure, there must be a big problem. Sure enough, Ye Tao continued: "Although cast iron is not a very expensive thing, it is difficult to use cast iron to build so many large frame structures. Yicheng does not have a large smelting workshop in the area, and it is not safe to have accuracy and quality, and transportation is even more of a big problem. Special bricks are the same. For such a tall building, the foundation should be

How should I deal with it? All pile driving machines need to be redesigned. Together, all aspects of the situation are intact, and all aspects need to be made from scratch, and if these problems are solved, I will ask my senior brother to be responsible for the construction of the bell tower, and then I will be responsible for the installation and debugging of the bell room and clock. ... The key is money. If I build this thing, I will not be able to calculate the specific cost. I will think about it and think of a relatively easy solution to achieve."
Chapter completed!