In the streets and alleys of Guangzhou Prefecture, merchants returning from Xiangshan County discussed the wonders they saw in Xiangshan in the South China Sea.

Nanhai County, Guangzhou Prefecture, is the largest residential area for the furnace households in Guangdong and Guangxi. It was a distribution center for iron smelting a long time ago. With Foshan Town as the center, the prosperous iron smelting, textile and ceramics have made the local area prosperous unprecedentedly. It has become the leading commercial center south of Wuling and one of the four major gatherings.

Nowadays, Xiangshan, Xinhui, and Nanyang have to add millions of kilograms of iron and copper ore to the mainland every year, which can not stimulate the local subway industry enough. Instead, the influx of iron ore mining in Qiongzhou was ordered by the Governor of Guangdong and Guangxi to bring greater changes to the Guangzhou Prefecture iron industry.

What is surprising is the steam engine, something that should not have appeared in this era.

If it were not for the strong implementation of the government, no one would have used a steam engine for another two hundred years. For no other reason, manpower has always been sufficient, and there is no shortage of manpower.

The government can control the people who devote themselves to maritime affairs, but cannot restrict the iron households. They were born to do this, and later generations also did this. There are tens of thousands of iron households in Foshan alone, and every household has a family-owned iron household. The Guangdong Provincial Administration’s 15th tax and one iron course can collect more than 300,000 kilograms of iron silver in a year. How much demand does it take to change the local production model?

If it doesn’t exist, Guangguo has been sold to the north, and its production capacity is still overcapacity.

But it is different if the government strongly promotes it. In Guangdong, the agency that manages iron households and taxation is called Iron Factory. Although the tax collection is not much, it has absolute power over the iron households. It is precisely because of this institution that Chen Mu can send a letter to control the iron households in Guangdong.

In fact, he did nothing. He just introduced Sugang's technology and agreed to price to issue steel demands from the Nanyang Military Bureau, so that the furnace owners not only stayed with iron making, but also stayed with latte to steel making, and used steam engines on a large scale in steel forging.

Su Steel has simplified and improved the production of cast steel. Of course, this is not the best steel in the industrial era, but it is the best large-scale production steel in the era in which Chen Mu lived.

He was like a father who promoted his son, wishing steam engines all over Guangdong, but in fact, the merchants who had to use steam engines because of their power were not so satisfied with this thing.

Is the steam engine magical? Magical!

But can the steam engine play a magical role with it? Sudden!

It is obvious that hiring hundreds of workers can achieve the same effect. Even whether it is textile or forging, skilled craftsmen are easier to use than bulky and stupid steam engines, and they are better made. The government must ask households to hire twenty more workers with steam engines, and the steam engine can feed twenty more workers a day.

And sometimes a large steam engine in those large factories is not enough. One cloth is needed, one jacquard is needed, and a worker needs to watch in front of the loom.

Originally, weaving only, weaving and jacquard can be done by manpower, but there is no clumsy steamer.

The government initially asked someone to buy a steamer, but later it was found that it could not be sold and simply pushed it forcibly, which forced people to pinch their noses and recognize it.

Of course, there are also benefits of steamers, but people are not used to it.

After a forced implementation, the Xiangshan Textile Factory has now rumbling steam engines everywhere, and the output has increased, but more noise and troubles are also constantly.

But in various iron workshops and stonemasons, steam engines are more popular. When powering new machine tools, cutting hammers are effortless, just like Chen Mu was happy when he first used hydraulic forging hammers.

The prosperity of machine tools has made it easier to cut stones. People mix diamonds and iron together to make circular saw blades, and small objects are transmitted effortlessly with transmission. All of this comes from the power provided by the steam engine.

Merchants and knowledgeable people among students all believe that steam engines will bring more possibilities to the world in the future.

This possibility becomes a reality in the Nanyang Military Weapons Bureau.

The last time Chen Mu returned to the Nanyang Military Weapons Bureau was last year. While returning this year, he was preparing to motivate craftsmen to go to Minduluo Island to open an iron kiln.

"The smelting technology of various countries is too poor, and the iron material of the best ore is not enough to be used. In the past, the ore could only be shipped. This is not a long-term solution. In this way, each ship is less than 30%.

Chen Mu walked into the Nanyang Guard, looked at the factory of the Military Weapon Bureau in the distance, and said to Guan Zunban: "We need to select a few capable blacksmiths to go to Nanyang, and also come and see how the Military Weapon Bureau is now."

After all, Guan Yuangu was old, and the Military Weapon Bureau was not a good place to support his elderly care. After cement was made last year, Chen Mu sent him to the research room of the Navy Martial Arts Hall to receive the fifth-rank salary of the Military Weapon Bureau. The Military Weapon Bureau also paid another third-rank salary for his elderly care. Now that the Military Weapon Bureau is taken over by Guan Zun's squad, Chen Mu is not relieved.

"Abide by the order!"

Guan Zun's squad was standing behind the commander Huang Dexiang. Lao Bai had already stepped down as commander and became the commander. All the former elite soldiers and generals were transferred to Nanyang. Among the qualifications, only the thousand households of Huang Dexiang were able to serve as commander. He was pushed to the position of commander.

Nanyang Guard, Sailugong said that he would let his own people serve as commanders, not to mention the commander, even the commander was Huang Zhenqing, a clan of Huang Dexiang.

Behind them, the Military Arts Bureau's pen clerk, quickly recalling Chen Mu's request. Guan Zunban said: "Now, except for the shipyard, Xiangshan has been moved into the Nanyang Guard. The Military Arts Bureau has a craftsman school affiliated to the Navy Martial Arts Hall. Last year, a few vacancies were recruited, and there were also martial arts lecturers to guide the compilation of books on weekdays."

"Subsidiary of Ironmaking, Steel Instrument, Gunpowder, Bird Gun, Sword and Soldier, Armor, Casting and Fireworks, and Procuratorial Office, each performs its duties."

Guan Zun's squad introduced to Chen Mu: "The production of military weapons must be supervised by the Third Division, the Iron Smelting Department self-inspection, the Iron Division self-inspection, and the Inspection and Inspection Department self-inspection. If a gun is made and a steel ingot is entered into the Bird Gun Division, once the Bird Gun Division is received, the problem will be the Bird Gun Division."

"A piece of iron into the steel stool department, inscribe the name of the inspector of the Ironmaking Department, practice the steel into the Bird Gun Department, inscribe the name of the inspector of the Steel stool department, and make the bird gun into the Inspection and School Office, inscribe the name of the inspector of the Bird Gun Department, and inscribe the name of the inspector of the Bird Gun Department. When the gun is left, the gun barrel will be inscribed with a certain department of the Bird Gun Department, the inspection and school department, and the date and number of the factory."

Speaking of this, Guan Zunban said proudly: "Anyone who explodes or damages can be investigated and punished!"

"Each department has established a department for incorrect disciplines and specializes in technical improvements. Mr. Shuai also said that this is not a one-day effort, but as long as you do it, you will always achieve results."

Chen Mu nodded, walked through the fort shooting platform and wall that the flag army was strictly guarding, and entered the military weapon bureau. It was like a military center, with a unique world behind the stone wall.

The roaring steam engine was deafening. There were two conveyor belts connected to the walls of the Ironmaking and Steel Cultivation Division. A steam engine specially provided power for this conveyor belt. A continuous stream of small iron ingots were transported from this and fell into a pile box filled with pig iron and cooked iron. The steel casting department carried out the steel casting department. The steam forging hammer forged the unevenly distributed solid-liquid iron and steel mixture into steel, and then transported it to the Bird Gun Department and the Armored Department.

On the other side of the Iron Smelting Division, it is facing the casting guns, and the casting guns are sent there with iron, and then various specifications of cannons are made.

"How is the output of guns and cannons now?"

"Last month, the Military Weapons Bureau checked bird guns and made 2,170 flintlock guns, 700 heavy guns, and 29 cannons over five kilograms. Because last month, they used new cannon molds, so there were fewer cannons, and this month will be more, but this is the case under the bird guns, with more than ninety poles a day."
Chapter completed!