In Luoyang, the hardware workshop was extremely noisy, with various metal impacts and steam gushing one after another, mixed with the roar of the machine when it was running. In the nail making field, Yan Wang Yuwen Weihan stood in front of the huge nail making machine, watching the operator introduce the front end of a roll of iron wire into the machine.

This coil of iron wire is like a large water tank, full of weight, it is said to weigh hundreds of pounds. If you want to pull the iron wire, you have to use steam power, so the entire set of nail making equipment is equipped with a steam engine.

King Yuwen Weihan of Yan was familiar with steam engines. Steam engines are indispensable in the factory opened in Jicheng, Youzhou Prefecture, but the "nail making machine" was the first to see him, so he was very interested.

When he was in Huangzhou, Yuwen Weihan visited the nail making workshop. The nail making workshop in Huangzhou has a large output. When he was fully producing, he could make tens of thousands of iron nails a day.

The reason why such an amazing production quantity is that the workshop divides nail making into several steps: wire drawing, cutting, grinding, and nailing tailings. Each step is handled by a special craftsman, and everyone divides the work and works, so the production speed is very fast.

Now, this nail making machine is actually done with the above steps with the machine, and the operator is mainly responsible for ensuring that the machine is running normally and that the machine is shut down in time if there is a fault.

The specific process is probably that the machine first cuts the long iron wire, cuts it into a broken iron wire with uniform length, then enters a disc, and then clamps it, allowing the iron wire to rotate with the disc, and the nail tips are ground by the abrasive tool.

Then the other end of these nails was "squeezed" out of the nail tail by the machine, and the whole process was completed in one go, but each work section required someone to operate properly.

It is precisely because people still need to operate and supervise that the nail making machine cannot run alone, and its production capacity is about 200 kilograms of nail making (the most common nail) every day (eight hours).

The reason why output is described by weight rather than quantity is that the quantity is too large. The most common-sized nails weigh about three kilograms. In other words, a machine makes more than 66,600 nails per day (eight hours).

If the number of machines increases, the output will be doubled.

The daily production of more than 60,000 iron nails is an amazing number. This kind of machine is a by-product of Seiko Institute's development of arrowhead manufacturing equipment. It was originally a military machinery, but it was only introduced to the "civil market" after it changed its use.

Such a machine is huge but only requires five people to operate. If the main nail making yards in the world use machines to produce iron nails, it can greatly save manpower.

But things are not that simple. Whether the production capacity of nail making farms in various places should be expanded and whether to use special machines to produce iron nails must be calculated first.

If the local market does not require such a large amount of iron nail supply, purchasing "nail making machines" to increase production capacity in the nail making field is a waste of money.

The reality is that the demand for iron nails in various places can be met by division of labor and cooperation of manpower nail making grounds. Therefore, nail making grounds in various places do not require nail making machines, so at the beginning, this kind of machine had no future application.

But later, when iron nails were sold overseas on a large scale, the nail making machine had a place to work.

The countries in Haidong, Nanyang, and Tianzhu have a great demand for iron nails. The orders issued by Liangyang Trading Company to domestic nail making farms last year, the cumulative demand for iron nails was in units of "10,000 jin".

The vast overseas market is not wilderness but the market. The huge demand generated by it has brought the "semi-automatic nail making machine" to rebirth. Therefore, even if the construction cost is expensive (nearly 100,000 yuan per unit), the purchase of the nail making farm can quickly regain the huge orders from the sea trade.

In the future, depreciation and operating expenses of the machine can basically ensure obvious profits.

Yuwen Weihan heard from the Maritime Manufacturing Company that there were ten sets of such equipment in Guangzhou Fanyu Nailmaking Field, eight sets of such equipment in Yangzhou Guangling Nailmaking Field, and three sets of such equipment in Laizhou Huangcheng.

The three-site nail field aims at the "overseas market". We should take advantage of the large orders of overseas trade, quickly expand production capacity, use the payment to pay for the money, and then turn on the machine to make money.

Therefore, Yuwen Weihan felt that the nail making ground in Youzhou had to catch up with this east wind.

He has been the chief supervisor of Youzhou until now. Even though he was in charge of the eastern expedition to Goguryeo, he returned to the chief supervisor of Youzhou after the war. In order to develop Youzhou, he fully learned from the "Huangzhou experience".

There are already new iron ore in Youzhou, and the output is increasing year by year. Although it is not as good as the "monster" like Daye Iron Manufacturing Institute, Youzhou's iron output can already promote iron agricultural tools and tools locally and support foreign trade.

With iron farm tools, people can cultivate more farmland to grow grain; with iron tools, water conservancy construction will be twice the result with half the effort, a large amount of farmland will be irrigated, and grain output will increase, and more people can be supported.

With more people, the popularity will be strong. It is time to develop industry and commerce. Then, relying on the Yongji Canal and Yanjin seaport, there are Liaoxi Border Trade and Liaodong development, and Shanghai Trade and Yuwen Weihan feels that the Youyan area cannot develop, so he can only say that he is incompetent.

According to the "Huangzhou experience", the smelting and ironmaking industry requires a large number of personnel to participate, which can drive local development. Then, on this basis, develop industry and absorb landless civilians to work, so that these people can rely on work to support their families and will not gather in some places and think about rebelling all day long.

In recent years, Yuwen Weihan sent people to explore and mine, and then invited technical backbones from the Daye Iron Manufacturing Institute to guide the construction of a new iron smelting blast furnace. Finally, the iron products produced in Youzhou gradually became famous. The iron pots and iron plows produced are called "swallow pots" and "swallow plows" by the people.

Now, the demand for iron products in Hai Trade has increased significantly, and Yuwen Weihan feels it is another good opportunity.

He is now taking advantage of the opportunity of returning to Beijing to report his job and visiting relatives to inspect new nail making machines in Luoyang. If there is no problem, he will apply to the court to order ten sets of machines, expand the production capacity of Youzhou nail making farm as soon as possible, and strive to get more orders.

Thinking of this, Yuwen Weihan looked at the machine in front of him and saw that the operator was ready, and then turned the gate.

The machine roared, and one end kept "sucking in" the iron wire, and all moving parts in the middle of the machine began to operate, and the sound of clicking and clicking sounds were endless.

The iron wire cut off by the machine enters a disc through the diversion groove, and sputters a lot of sparks when polished, looking aside like a fire tree and silver flowers.

The iron wires that were ground into needles were forcibly squeezed out the flat "tail" by the machine, and finally "spouted" by the machine. In addition to pausing during manual operation, the whole process can be said to be flowing.

Yuwen Weihan reached out and took out an iron nail, feeling the residual heat of the iron nail with his fingers. Looking at the machine that quickly "sucked in" the iron wire, he didn't know how to describe his mood.

This machine is like an iron-eating beast, and its "intake" is not very large.
Chapter completed!