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Chapter 74 Improving agricultural shovels and producing military shovels

It is said to be a dictionary, but it actually covers local Russian slang and rhetoric, ensuring that even a forty-year-old adult can re-understand the Russian language through learning.

What's even more clever is that with this dictionary, speaking Russian becomes less vulgar.

With this achievement alone, Peter believed that he had left Frederick behind in education.

After all, German is also famous for its strong rural flavor.

The resort on the Gulf of Finland, the lake is sparkling, it is already four o'clock in the afternoon, and the hot weather has cooled down slightly.

As for the entire inner lake, according to Peter's request, a waterway was dug to lead to the Baltic Sea. This was what Peter had planned a few months before coming to the Gulf of Finland.

On the one hand, it is to turn stagnant water into living water; on the other hand, it depends on how long it will take to drill through the Baltic Sea from here.

But what surprised Peter was that it took three months to cover a distance of only 20 kilometers and 500 people.

So Peter designed the shovel.

The designed shovel is not a shovel in the ordinary sense, even though there may be an ordinary shovel in the East, because it was invented in the Shang Dynasty and was called a spade.

The ordinary shovel is a modern shovel. It has a long pole with an iron shovel underneath. When using it, you can dig soil by stepping on one side of the shovel.

However, this requires you to bend down frequently, and working for a long time will cause back pain, and you will soon feel tired.

The shovel designed by Peter was actually an improvement from an old foreign man he saw before traveling through time.

This foreign old man only used some cheap materials at home to make it. It is easy to operate without bending, and the work speed is greatly improved. This is useful to the whole of Russia, so Peter used it.

In fact, the lever principle is used to add a protruding log on the top of the wooden pole, which looks like a Wing Chun practice stake. When shoveling soil and plowing, the action of bending down to shovel up the soil is omitted. Just put your hands on it.

By twisting this log sideways, the soil can be shoveled away.

But this log is still a bit tired after drying for a long time. An iron bracket is added above the shovel head. The center part of the bracket is an iron needle. When the shovel is stepped into the soil with your feet, the iron needle will also

Follow it into the soil to facilitate breaking up the soil.

At the same time, the arc-shaped bracket also fixes the fulcrum of the shovel, and cooperates with the handle above to save the effort of bending down to shovel the soil with the shovel.

Since the new shovel equipment has been equipped for these workers, everyone who has used it has said it is good.

Just half a month ago, the inner lake of this resort was finally connected to the Baltic Sea. After seeing that the efficiency was greatly improved, Peter asked Vorontsov to draw up a draft, and he signed two decrees.

The first is to popularize this kind of shovel nationwide, and the second is to build five thousand short-handled military shovels according to the sketch drawn by Peter.

There was a heroic man in Liangshan, Tao Zongwang, nicknamed the Nine-tailed Turtle. He was known as a short-skinned man with a black face and a shovel that dared to dig into the foundation of Mount Tai. His weapon was a shovel.

The shovel, which was originally a farming tool, became a murder weapon in his hands.

Of course the sketch Peter drew is not like this, it is a real military shovel. This kind of military shovel is even equipped in the Eastern Army in the 21st century and has many uses.

This thing is absolutely powerful, capable of digging, digging, planing, swinging, splitting, shoveling, slashing, chopping, pounding, cutting, shooting, etc. In close combat, it is sometimes more effective than a military dagger.

Moreover, Russian soldiers are famous gray animals. During war, they can dig a hole in a flat field to hide themselves and sleep with a shovel. They can also use it to fight the enemy in close combat, hitting them hard enough to break the skull.

During non-war times, you can also help with the work at the farmers' homes. At least you can fry an egg with a shovel, which can also supplement iron.

These five thousand military shovels are designed by Peter in three colors, one is military green, one is pure black, and one is pure white, which is convenient for use in different combat environments.

Of course, a soldier does not carry three handles, but they are kept in the armory and issued or replaced according to the combat environment.

There are two factories that implement this decree, one is the Yekaterinburg Metallurgical Plant and the other is the Ural Metallurgical Plant.

Both places are thousands of kilometers away from Moscow, and the Yekaterinburg Metallurgical Plant is more than 400 kilometers closer.

The Ural Metallurgical Plant was put into operation in 1701 under Peter the Great, and the Yekaterinburg Metallurgical Plant was put into operation in 1723.

The report Peter received was that the Yekaterinburg Metallurgical Factory now has 50 impact turbines, which can drive 22 sledge hammers, 107 wind boxes and several drawing lathes, cutting machines, barrel drilling tables, rolling cars and other equipment, with a total power of

500 horsepower.

Not to mention Ural, its metallurgical scale ranks only after Olonets and Kashir-Tula.

Samples were handed over from both places.

The production of iron in Russia does not rely on foreign technology at all. It is now 1745, and the iron-melting blast furnace at the Ural Factory is more than 9 meters tall. It uses a water turbine as the output power to drive a sledgehammer for wrought iron forging.

The amount of molten iron in the Urals has reached 7.7 million poods per year, and the production of ferrous metals has surpassed that of Britain and Sweden, now ranking first in the world. Ural production alone accounts for four-fifths of Russia's total steel production.

It was not until 55 years later that Britain used fossil fuel smelting instead of the current charcoal to smelt iron, leaving Russia and other countries far behind.

Peter chose the Ural factory and ordered the Ural factory to smelt the first batch of 5,000 military shovels.

On the grass by the lake, Peter was lying on a sunshade chair made by a craftsman, and Lomonosov, who had finished compiling the dictionary, stood next to him.

Peter originally indicated that he could dress coolly and enjoy the approaching evening like him, but Lomonosov respectfully said that he could just stand.

Lomonosov not only stood up straight, but also looked absolutely straight.

When he was led here by the palace maid, he was still puzzled because Mirkovsky and other guards and guards were guarding one kilometer away.

But when he came here in a carriage, he understood why the male guards were so far away.

Because the lake was full of female officials wearing cool clothes.

Lomonosov devoted himself to completing His Majesty's mission, and while he and Andrenov were very knowledgeable, they only heard that Russia had become a fashion center. When he returned to his hometown, he saw noble ladies wearing clothes that amazed him.

But he had never seen such coolness.

With two pieces of cloth on his upper body and one piece of cloth on his lower body, Lomonosov's old face turned red.

His Majesty was also naked from the waist up, with only a piece of cloth on his lower body.

Lomonosov strictly abided by his duties as a minister and never looked too far behind. He was called here by His Majesty, and he didn't know what His Majesty's orders were for him.

But no matter what His Majesty orders, he will do his best.

Lomonosov was excited just to think that the parliament was drafting a bill on how to study the dictionary compiled by him and Andnov.

What an honor this is!

Moreover, His Majesty actually wrote his and Andnov's names in the dictionary.

All honors should originally belong to His Majesty.
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