This is a crazy era.

At this time, the European Renaissance was in full swing, and a large number of writers, artists, scientists and others emerged like mushrooms after a rain.

Dante, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Shakespeare, Cervantes, Galileo, Pascal and other world-famous masters have set off a trend of promoting ideological progress in the continental region.

Dennis Papan, Thomas Seville, James Watt and other key figures who promote the development of steam engines will also appear in continental China.

At this time, the Ming Dynasty had already begun to crazily study the application technology of steam engines in various fields.

The steam era of the Ming Dynasty has begun!

Of course, if you want to use steam engines widely in various industries, you must first have enough steam engines.

Therefore, the Ministry of Industry quickly invested a lot of manpower and material resources and began to crazily study machine tools that increase the production capacity of steam engines.

Taichang also gave enough support. He directly ordered people to flatten the Wanshou Palace site west of the imperial city, its dirty penalties in the north and Shouming Hall in the south, and then built a large-scale construction to plan a huge steam engine factory for the Ministry of Industry.

To be honest, it is not difficult to develop some steam machine tools.

It can be said that as long as you have ideas and concepts, it can be realized soon.

For example, forging beds, the most primitive forging beds is to simply replace the punch mold with a hammer!

Of course, considering that the workpiece will quickly become cold and hard during forging of the forging bed, the forging speed of the hammer must be appropriately accelerated.

All of this could not be a problem for Wang Zheng. He led his disciples to tinker with him for a few days, and a brand new forging bed was tinkered with by him.

In the steam engine factory, in the simple factory building that had just been built, Taichang looked at the forging bed that was nearly twice as large as an ordinary punch, and couldn't help but nodded with admiration.

To be honest, his hands-on ability and even R&D ability are not as strong as Wang Zheng and others. He just has some cross-age things in his mind. To turn these things into real objects, he has to rely on Wang Zheng and others.

Therefore, the technology or development level of these people is particularly important to him.

At this moment, Wang Zheng and others have made great progress. It can be said that they all have the level of professional engineers, and their own understanding of the things they have developed has been added. He no longer needs to mention points everywhere.

How fast is this forging bed forging things?

Wang Zheng waved his hand and a disciple walked to the big stove next to him, put on a huge cowhide glove, picked up an iron clip, and directly clamped a red-burned copper rod out of the fire, quickly clamped it into the semicircular groove under the forging bed, and then raised his foot and pointed it to the pedal below.

"Cang", "Cang", "Cang", "Cang", the hammer on the forging bed kept falling down quickly as he frequently twitched, and the clip in his hand also turned rapidly with the copper rod clamping up and down of the hammer.

The copper rod, which was originally about two inches thick, was almost like dough, and it became smaller and longer at a speed visible to the naked eye. In a short while, it became a fine copper rod that was only a little more than one inch.

The connecting rod of the steam engine is one inch, and a certain processing thickness must be left after forging. It is enough to forge the copper rod to make it look like this.

The disciple directly cooled the cold water bucket next to the forged copper rod clip for a while, then took off his gloves and tried the temperature in his hand. Then he respectfully handed it to Wang Zheng.

Wang Zheng couldn't help but show off in front of Taichang and said, "Your Majesty, you see, this copper casting rod originally required a skilled craftsman forged for most of the day to barely meet the requirements. Moreover, the outside is not very round, with edges and corners everywhere, and it is not very convenient to process. The forging bed is different. Not only is it tight, but it is also very round on the outside, and it is also very convenient to process."

Taichang took it and looked at it. Sure enough, except for the clip clip, the other parts were round and very regular in shape.

This square is actually used for auxiliary processing and needs to be cut off when it is processed into a finished product. Taichang also knows this.

It seems that the forging bed has been successfully developed, and the next one is the lathe and drilling machine.

He nodded repeatedly for approval, and then asked, "Liangfu, how are the lathes and drilling machines?"

Upon hearing this, Wang Zheng couldn't help but say embarrassedly: "The drilling machine and the lathe are still a little problem. Lord Bi and Chang Geng are all trying to figure out a solution."

A small question?

What's the problem?

When Taichang heard this, he raised his hand without hesitation and said, "Let's go over and take a look."

The workshops of this steam engine factory are also classified according to their functions, including casting workshops, forging workshops, and special drilling workshops and cutting workshops.

During mass production, there are thousands of pieces at one time, and each process must be concentrated and completed at a fast speed. Everyone needs to work from beginning to end with a workpiece, which is not a mass production, but a grinding process.

Therefore, machine tools with different functions have different workshops.

The workshop has just started to be built now, so it has built a few walls and a few simple sheds, and the conditions are quite poor.

However, a number of senior officials from the Ministry of Works were very enthusiastic and didn't care about these things at all.

When Taichang followed Wang Zheng into another workshop, Bi Maokang, Song Yingxing and others were lying under a simple bed and frowned and pondering.

These people are crazy about developing things.

You know, the lowest-ranking minister among them is also the third-rank minister, who doesn’t care about his image at all now.

What are you thinking about when you are lying there?

Taichang couldn't help but walk over and asked curiously: "Meng Hou, what are you thinking?"

Seeing that the emperor was coming, Bi Maokang quickly got up and bowed: "Master, we are thinking about how to clamp all the parts. When drilling things in this drilling machine, it is so powerful that many things can't be clamped. Follow the drill bit!"

Oh, it turns out that's the small problem.

Taichang possessed himself and took the baffle they were trying to clamp and looked at it, and couldn't help but smile.

The fastening method is now a bit difficult to clamp such a round copper plate, but it is different with fasteners.

What are fasteners?

Screws are the simplest fasteners.

He waved directly to Song Yingxing and said, "Chang Geng, do you still remember the screws I told you in Jinling last time?"

Song Yingxing quickly got up and bowed, "Your Majesty, I still remember it, but that thing is too troublesome to make, and it doesn't come quickly without the rivets, so I didn't do it later."

Of course, you use rivets to connect those iron plates and other things, but if you tighten them, you can't use rivets.

Taichang pinched the baffle in his hand and said, "It's actually very simple to clamp this. You just need to make a larger iron table, open a few slots in the middle, plug the nut underneath, press a few iron blocks with holes on it, and then pass the screws through the middle of the iron block, connect the nuts under the table, and tighten them hard."

Uh, what screws and nuts?

When Bi Maokang, Wang Zheng and others heard this, they were all confused because Taichang had not introduced in detail to them what screws and nuts were.

When Song Yingxing heard this, he showed a hint of suddenness.

He thought about it carefully, then nodded slowly and said, "If there were screws and nuts mentioned by the emperor, it would be fine to clamp these things, but the screws and nuts were really too difficult to make. Even a skilled craftsman would not be able to carve one for a day."

Uh, who told you to use sculpting?

Well, if it is the first set of molds, it does need to be carved out and carefully crafted.

However, when the mold comes out, it will be easier to batch process.

Taichang thought about it again, and then mentioned: "You can use Bailian steel to carve a set of molds, then burn the iron blocks softly, and then turn them into the shape of screws and nuts, and then use the mold to process them. Wouldn't the screws and nuts come out? Screws and nuts are good things, and they can be used in many places. Why do you ask craftsmen to carve one by one? Of course, they are carved into molds for mass production!"

It turns out that it is softened and then processed!

To be honest, Song Yingxing never thought about carving a set of molds, nor did he think about burning the iron blocks to soften them before processing them.

Because the iron blocks burned red and burned people to death, Song Yingxing didn't think about this at that time.

However, it's different at this time.

"I see!"

When Taichang mentioned it, he was like a mental attack. He immediately jumped up from the ground and ran out excitedly.

Alas, this guy.
Chapter completed!