Next to the port, not far from the lighthouse, Liu Xinyu quietly looked down at the port not far away.
The battleship Zhiyuan is ready to set sail for the second time; the port is already crowded with people. Many people around come to watch. But more of them are businessmen from Qixia Kingdom, etc. There are even businessmen from other countries.
Compared to sitting in a small room, Liu Xinyu prefers to stand here and look at the vast sea and the cheering crowd.
On the boundless sea, in the rolling waves, a small iron ship is preparing to once again cut through the chasm that no one has been able to cross for thousands of years, in search of the light of civilization.
The colorful light of the lighthouse shoots straight into the sky. Today's lighthouse is more like a torch of civilization, igniting the light of civilization. From here, the country of Qixia found the light of civilization on the green sea of death.
The brilliance of the rising sun coated the giant steel ship with a layer of hope and iron-blooded brilliance. In the endless struggle, tempered by blood and fire, the country of Qixia broke through the blockade of sea and land and ushered in its own
hope.
The sea has been rolling with waves for thousands of years; but now, there is a small black spot on the sea, a steel battleship.
Facing the entire sea and the entire continent, it is so small. But it is this small ship that carries the hope of a country.
Under the morning sun, Liu Xinyu looked steadily at the sea and the port. As the first stop of her tour across the country, Liu Xinyu chose this place without any hesitation.
Turning around and looking at the cliff next to it, there is a row of large characters engraved on it: The land ends here and the ocean begins here!
After a while, the battleship started slowly. The people on the battleship waved vigorously to the shore, and the sailors cheered loudly over the waves.
Liu Xinyu stood still, quietly watching the warship sail into the sea and turn south. Finally, the warship cut through the water, causing wrinkles in the sea surface for several kilometers, and disappeared little by little.
There was a sound of footsteps, and Zhang Hao slowly walked over and stood not far from Liu Xinyu without speaking.
"You didn't go with the boat this time?" Liu Xinyu asked softly without turning her head.
Zhang Hao looked at the traces of shipping that still remained on the sea, and said with a faint smile: "I believe they can do a good job!"
Liu Xinyu nodded slowly, and after a while, Liu Xinyu suddenly asked: "This port doesn't have a name yet, does it?"
"Um..." Zhang Hao suddenly felt a little embarrassed. Also, up until now, the port has not been given a name. It really shouldn't be.
Liu Xinyu slowly raised her head, looked at the distance of the sea, looked at the connection between the sea and the sky, and said slowly: "I heard that in the north, north of the country of Yanyun, there is a desert. Desert, a world of despair; only in the desert
Only when you find an oasis can you find hope.
I think the name Oasis is very suitable for this port.
The green sea of death we face is not a desert! But now, we have built our own oasis in this blue desert with our own hands!
This is where the hope of the entire Fertile Continent lies!”
The sea breeze blew slowly, blowing Liu Xinyu's clothes.
Later, Liu Xinyu suddenly changed the topic, "I heard that a master in the transformation stage named Chen Yansong joined Dayang Group?"
"Yes." Zhang Hao nodded. In the past few days, Zhang Hao tricked Chen Yansong into joining Dayang Group, and one person got 1% of Dayang Group's shares. Zhang Hao took a few shares from each shareholder and gathered them into Chen Yansong.
In the hands of Yansong. Everyone has no objections to this. After all, it is to join a master in the transformation stage.
This time, Chen Yansong also set off with the ship. There were also captains Dugu Junjie and Feng Zhiling on the ship. If there is no big event in the future, Zhang Hao will probably not follow the ship again. Professional matters should be left to professional people.
.Zhang Hao’s specialty is directing others.
"What is the cargo of Ocean Group this time?"
"20,000 excellent, unsheathed, white steel long swords. 300 tons of 99.7% dark iron, 50 tons of steel. The remaining cannonballs are 1,800 tons."
"Cannonballs...well, forget it. What happened to the long sword?"
"Well, before, I gave each family of the Eastern Merchant Group 3 long swords forged from steel as gifts, the kind used by our ordinary soldiers. As a result, they said that this is a good thing in the East, and they were willing to pay 500 high-grade spiritual stones for each.
Yes. Later, I felt embarrassed and dropped it to 200 high-grade spiritual stones.
However, for two hundred high-grade spiritual stones, there is no scabbard, and only sword bars are made, which improves the efficiency a lot. A sword is about 1.3 kilograms, and twenty thousand sword bars are only 26 tons."
The corner of Liu Xinyu's mouth twitched a little: "I roughly know how much the Zhang family's steel costs. You sell a sword bar for 200 high-grade spiritual stones... you are really open-minded!"
Zhang Hao was unhappy: "Your Majesty, what you said...I don't agree with it. I must firmly oppose it. Your Majesty, what is the price of Dongfang Xuantie onshore? 99.6% Xuantie, onshore
The price is as high as 75 per kilogram of high-grade spiritual stones.
Although the calculation method of kilograms in the East and the West is different, the kilograms in the East seem to be larger, with one kilogram weighing sixteen taels. However, the price of black iron is still very high.
Our steel sword is forged with 99.7% dark iron and only costs 200 high-grade spiritual stones. From the outside, this is almost the cost price.
Representatives from Eastern trading houses happily accepted it! There was no objection at all!
Your Majesty, do you know why this is?"
Liu Xinyu frowned. She vaguely felt something, but she couldn't express it for a while.
Zhang Hao didn't wait for Liu Xinyu to answer, and said: "Your Majesty, this is technology! Your Majesty, you have always been in contact with us and know us well, so you think our asking price is very expensive.
But your Majesty, if you think from the outside world, you will find that our prices are really very cheap!
The reason for this is because our technology has improved. This is technology!
Technology is the future of Qixia Country.
The new black iron production method is technology. The emergence of steel is technology. The huge sky-sealing and earth-sealing formation is technology. Even the Zhiyuan battleship is technology!
All of this is technological progress.
Taking steel as an example, why did they readily agree when I asked for 200 high-grade spiritual stones?
This is pricing power!
Once we master the technology, we have dominance; and this dominance includes pricing power!
Let’s talk about battleships. Because we have battleships, we have opened up hope and we have obtained cheap elixirs! Your Majesty, do you think a Peiyuan Dan 0.6 spirit stone is incredible? But this is just our idea. For Dongfang
For example, they may think it’s too expensive!”
"Technology?" Liu Xinyu was thoughtful, but she frowned slightly, always feeling that there was still a core that she had not grasped. "Technology... what will it be if it develops?"
"A revolution! A revolution in the mode of production! I think it should be called a technological revolution, or an industrial revolution! This is a brand-new production method, which uses machines to produce machines!
Your Majesty, let me take you to see the Zhang family’s production base.”
This time, Zhang Hao took Liu Xinyu directly to the machine tool production base, the core production base of the Zhang family!
Zhang Hao thought about it for a long time and finally led Liu Xinyu here.
Liu Xinyu is the head of this country, and the country's future depends entirely on Liu Xinyu. If Zhang Hao wants the country of Qixia to truly develop at a high speed, he needs to ensure that Liu Xinyu's thoughts are sufficiently advanced.
Therefore, Zhang Hao took Liu Xinyu into the core of the Zhang family today. This place has never been open to the outside world!
This is a world where machines produce machines!
Liu Xinyu asked the guards to stay outside the barrier and walked in alone. Then, she was shocked. What appeared in front of Liu Xinyu was a world of steel and machines.
Liu Xinyu glanced around, but for a moment she didn't know where to start.
Zhang Hao first led Liu Xinyu to observe the production of steam turbine blades. Steam turbine blades are one of the most important technologies today.
Now the Zhang family has sold more than 50 steam turbines, and the Royal Commercial Bank has also purchased many. Liu Xinyu is very clear about the status and value of steam turbine blades, as well as the technical difficulty.
Many people want to copy the Zhang family's steam turbine, but they all have failed. The failure lies in... the blades!
At this time, Liu Xinyu saw how the blades were produced.
First, the high-purity iron block is repeatedly folded and forged, and then enters the stamping machine in a red-hot state to press out the basic shape. Then, after complex quenching, annealing, and cooling, the craftsman puts it into a somewhat complicated machine tool.
This machine tool has a horizontal axis, a vertical axis, and even a spiral axis; the tool advances along the spiral axis, just across the perfect curve, and pulls out iron filings as thin as a hair from the embryo of the blade.
The machine tool keeps moving, but in just three minutes, the surface of the blade has been processed. Then it enters the next process.
After the craftsmen inspect the blades to be qualified, they start drilling holes at the root of the blades, milling grooves, etc., and finally polish the entire blade. The entire process is completed by machine tools.
A blade that seems too complex to be copied by others can be processed here in just a few minutes.
Then Zhang Hao took Liu Xinyu to see the main shaft production of steam turbine rotors.
The spindle adopts a new pouring technology. The molten steel will be poured into a container that is sealed and reinforced in layers. It is first stirred to ensure that there are no bubbles, etc., and then sealed and pressurized. There is a weight above to apply pressure; when the molten steel begins to semi-solidify, the
Forged and pressed.
It often takes several days to cool a steel column, but Zhang Hao took Liu Xinyu to a formed steel column. The steel column was more than 70 centimeters thick and about four meters long. At this time, the steel column was still a little red.
It is hot, but it has been hoisted and heat treatment started.
In the next process, a steel column has been placed on a large machine tool and is being processed.
The machine tool rotated rapidly, iron filings curled up and flew out, and the steel column was cut to precise dimensions, exactly seventy centimeters in diameter.
Then the machine tool changed the cutting tools, and nine cutting tools cut simultaneously, starting to cut grooves. The grooves gradually widened, and the cut steel wires curled up and fell to the ground. Some filaments could even extend for more than ten meters.
Like a thread.
Soon, nine ridges with a height of ten centimeters appeared on the spindle. The tool then moved laterally to cut these steel ridges evenly, groove them, punch holes, and finally polish them as a whole.
When we came to the next process, we saw the excellent craftsmen aligning the grooves at the root of each blade with the grooves of the main shaft, using a relatively soft copper hammer to hit, align, and finally add screws to fix it. The blades began to be installed one by one.
, a complete steam turbine rotor has appeared.
Moving on to the next process, the formed rotor is rotating at a low speed, and the craftsmen are performing a balance check. This check is very careful, and the balance is slightly adjusted by adding paper-like gaskets to the bolts that fix the blades.
The rotor that was finally inspected rotated rapidly on the bearing. The heavy rotor weighing 12 tons rotated at more than a thousand revolutions per minute. This was the most extreme test at present; and during this process, the rotor made no noise at all!
Liu Xinyu couldn't help but lightly touch the optical axis of the rotor with her hand. She only felt the slightest softness and could barely feel a faint tremor.
Liu Xinyu watched intently; but Zhang Hao did not stop. He took Liu Xinyu to visit the more core production process, machine tools and machine tools!
The core of the machine production machine is the machine tool production machine tool. A set of fully functional machine tools with self-replicating capabilities has a very vivid name: Industrial Master Machine!
And here, this base is the industrial mother machine of the Zhang family! The complete set of machine tools here constitute a total of three sets of industrial mother machines, which are being rapidly produced.
Zhang Hao took Liu Xinyu to observe one by one. Here, Liu Xinyu saw the production of bearings, saw the production of screws, saw the production of molds, saw the production of gears... saw these small parts assembled bit by bit into a building.
Complete, complex machine tool!
Cold iron ingots, dark iron ingots, steel ingots, etc. are processed into roaring machines here!
Night fell, but the lights in the production base were bright. Liu Xinyu stood at a high place, silently looking at the machine tool production workshop. Over and over again, he watched the machine tool process pieces of steel billets into different parts, and then looked at these parts.
Reorganize the machine tool.
These machine tools will then be sent to the Zhang family, some core departments of Dayang Group, and will not be displayed to the public.
The Zhang family had strictly guarded these things before, and they still do now; but after careful consideration, Zhang Hao decided to take Liu Xinyu to have a look.
You can’t take away much technology at a glance, but it can make Liu Xinyu understand the future of industry and commerce and what is real industry and commerce!
This country needs a monarch with a pioneering spirit and a monarch who deeply understands the power of industry and the future.
Zhang Hao wants Liu Xinyu to understand: Industry and commerce, industry first, commerce second. The foundation of industry and commerce is industry and technology. Not those caravans that buy low and sell high!
It wasn't until dawn the next day that Liu Xinyu sighed: "Is this... the so-called industrial revolution?"
"I prefer to call it: Industrial Revolution 1.0, or the first industrial revolution. There will be a second, third, and even more in the future.
And the technology here, I plan to... gradually make it public to the country!"
Liu Xinyu frowned: "Why? Isn't it good to keep it for yourself? Why should it be made public?"
(Third update, asking for votes in the middle of the night. Before I knew it, it was 300 chapters.)