Become a feudal king from today

"If a worker wants to do his job well, he must first sharpen his tools. This lathe is the tool. With a complete range of lathes, he can manufacture all kinds of machinery with ease. Read М"

Zhao Xu nodded with satisfaction.

The lathes he gave Wang Chong were all mature lathes before the mid-19th century.

For example, the contemporary horizontal milling machine appeared in 1817.

Compared with the tool turret lathe that drills the workpiece, the horizontal milling machine can cut on the surface of the workpiece and engrave it like a carving knife. It can be used to manufacture gears, thread grooves and other accessories that require grooves.

There is also the gantry planer that appeared in 1837. As the name suggests, the planer is just like a carpenter's plane that planes and bevels wood.

A planer is a lathe that cuts a smooth surface out of metal. It can also be used to make flat grooves such as T-shaped grooves.

In addition, there was the hexagonal turret lathe that appeared in 1845.

This kind of lathe is like a hat fixed on the bench. Different tools can be assembled on the hexagonal corners of the hat to manufacture nuts, sleeves, rotating shafts and other parts.

As for boring machines, drilling machines, grinders, and forging machines, the corresponding technologies in Yanzhou have long been mature.

However, he still asked Wang Chong to make some improvements to make it more suitable for steam power.

At this point, Yanzhou basically has all types of lathes in the steam era.

Going forward, the requirement for lathes is to improve accuracy, but this requires more stable power, such as electricity.

Generally speaking, steam engines are still relatively prone to unstable speed.

Then, his eyes stayed on the belt connecting the two wheels and he frowned.

The steam engine drives the lathe to rotate and must connect its own runner with the lathe's runner.

Therefore, a strong belt must be pulled between the wheels.

In today's Western countries, this belt is made of rubber.

Since there is no such raw material in Yanzhou, Zhao Xu can only ask Wang Chong and others to use cowhide instead.

After all, cowhide is very wear-resistant and strong enough. With multiple layers of cowhide stitched together, it can completely replace rubber belts.

However, this caused the price of cowhide on the Yanzhou market to skyrocket.

"Rubber." Zhao Xu gently spit out two words. This is a problem that must be solved.

The rubber plantations in South America are controlled by Western countries, and the relationship between the two parties is stable. He can also obtain rubber through trade.

But if the relationship between the two sides deteriorates, the only way to obtain rubber resources is through war.

Of course, according to the data in his mind, there is a plant called rubber grass in the Western Regions, which can also be used to refine rubber, but it is currently controlled by Beidi and he will not be able to get it in the short term.

It was with these considerations in mind that he asked Zhou Yi to rescue Fei Wen.

Because Franco is one of the most important colonizers in the world and South America.

Maintaining a relationship with Franco will help him obtain rubber tree seeds from South America.

Moreover, there is another very important point. After the eighteenth century in the contemporary era, the Franconians did not participate in the invasion of the Qing Dynasty.

Because during this period, Francois was also facing aggression from the emerging power, the United States.

The United States successively seized the Philippines and many South American colonies from the French.

It can be described as very miserable.

This situation seems to be happening again in this world.

According to Feiwen’s explanation of the current international situation under the last question of the questionnaire.

A year ago, Sam State issued the Kane Declaration to oppose other Western countries seizing colonies in the Americas.

In fact, he just wants to turn America into his own backyard and claim it as his own.

This is aimed at the Franco machine.

Although the Sam Kingdom is currently not ranked among the Western Kingdoms, it is indeed more than enough to suppress the declining Franji.

In the future, the relationship between Franco and Sam will become increasingly bad.

In addition to the Sam Kingdom, Britain, Frank and other countries are also squeezing the Franconian Kingdom's living space.

Two hundred years ago, the Franconian Kingdom annexed the Portuguese Kingdom.

But decades ago, they supported the Portuguese nation's war of independence from the Franconian nation.

This prompted the Franco Kingdom to join the Holy Alliance established by the Rus' Kingdom.

It can be seen that it has basically become a doormat of Western soil.

Of course, Zhao Xu had no sympathy for Franji Country at all.

Because before Britain became the overlord of the ocean, Francois was the overlord of the ocean. Because of this, he was able to obtain so many colonies in South America and the Eastern Territory.

The conflict between them is nothing more than the rising young lion challenging the aging old lion king.

Furthermore, Francois were colonizers of both the New World of South America and the Eastern Territory.

He also committed numerous crimes.

His pursuit of establishing relations with Franji was based on profit considerations and in order to achieve his own rubber strategy.

After thinking about the rubber issue for a while, Zhao Xu said to Wang Chong: "Apart from the conveyor belt, the only remaining problem is the knife, right?"

Wang Chong nodded, "If tungsten steel alloy cutting tools can be used instead of high carbon steel cutting tools, the efficiency of the lathe will be greatly improved."

"I will go to Qu Sheng's place right now to give you a reminder." Upon hearing this, Zhao Xu patted Wang Chong on the shoulder again.

After leaving the steam engine workshop, under Xu Lie's escort, he went straight to the Science and Technology School.

After finding Qu Sheng, he directly asked about the issue of smelting tungsten ore.

"What a coincidence that Your Highness came here. I was about to go to His Highness to report this matter." Qu Sheng said with a smile.

Then, he led Zhao Xu to a laboratory, pointed to a glass bottle, and said, "Your Highness, this is the tungsten powder that was just smelted."

Zhao Xu looked at the black powder-like thing in the glass bottle and couldn't help but feel excited.

Qu Sheng continued to explain next to him, "I extracted the tungsten powder by mixing and heating carbon powder and tungsten ore powder."

"If His Highness agrees, I will order the students to recruit a group of craftsmen to be responsible for smelting tungsten powder in the smelting workshop."

During this time, he has been busy with the yellow gunpowder, and the tungsten powder has just started in the past two days.

Zhao Xu nodded and agreed.

After humans discovered tungsten ore, the most primitive way to extract tungsten was to directly reduce it with carbon powder.

Although this will cause a waste of tungsten ore, it is the cheapest and easiest method to implement.

In the future, as technology advances, we can slowly improve it.

After confirming the smelting of tungsten powder, Zhao Xu told Qu Sheng that after mass-producing tungsten powder, he would directly hand it over to the steel mill to produce tungsten steel.

Immediately, he returned to the palace, called Liu Fu over, and told him about universal education.

"The imperial court will set up a special agency to take charge of Yanzhou's education. This agency will be called the Education Department. After the Education Department is established, it will immediately solve Yanzhou's education problems from three aspects."

"First, we need to build public schools in every county. In rural areas far away from the county seat, the scale will be smaller, but we must also have public schools to provide places for children in the countryside to go to school."

"Second, establish a teacher school to train teachers specifically for public use."

"Third, the public offices are divided into seven levels, and free public education is implemented."

"free!"

Liu Fu originally had a smile on his face because of the matter of popularizing education.

Hearing this, he was suddenly shocked.