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As for things like shovels and pickaxes, that's not a problem. In order to concentrate its efforts, Sea Wolf is now concentrating its limited blacksmiths into boathouses, gunsmiths, and gunsmiths to produce firearms and ships. Ordinary tools like this, Sea Wolf

Production has been stopped for a long time, but these things are indispensable, so they are customized in some iron yards or blacksmith shops on land in the form of orders, and then directly shipped back to Sea Wolf's territory for delivery.

Even the cold weapons used by the Sea Wolf, such as swords, axes, spears, hooks, and other items, are secretly made on land and then shipped back to equip the Sea Wolf tribe for use.

In doing so, the limited blacksmiths were basically liberated from the work of making simple tools and invested in more important work, which enabled the Sea Wolf's gun production to continue to increase, and greatly improved the Sea Wolf tribe's productivity.

Equipment level and combat effectiveness.

Moreover, leaving this kind of work to the iron yards and blacksmith shops on land has also allowed Sea Wolf to establish business relationships with many places on land, reducing manpower consumption and not affecting the normal use of Sea Wolf.

However, some troubles have arisen regarding the vehicles that are indispensable for road construction projects. Seawolf now has quite a few carpenters. In addition to construction, furniture and weapons, it can also produce some vehicles, including some gun carriages.

Sea wolves can also produce their own.

However, most of the vehicles currently produced by carpenters are bulky and heavy two-wheeled ox carts. These vehicles are strong enough, but they are heavy and have higher road requirements. Nowadays, the output is not large, just

Several vehicles were made for each village so that the immigrant villages could use them to transport bulk goods.

However, these bullock carts require animal power to pull them, and they will inevitably use oxen. If human labor is used instead, it will be very laborious, and they will not be able to enter the construction site during construction.

Therefore, if you want to carry out road construction projects, you must use some light human-powered vehicles. Such vehicles must be easily pushed by manpower, and their carrying capacity cannot be too small. They must also be able to walk on very narrow sidewalks. The road requirements must be

Be low.

After much deliberation, Yu Xiaotian only thought of unicycles, so he ordered the carpenter's workshop to trial-produce a few unicycles and try them out.

The carpenter's workshop was not unambiguous and immediately started working on a few wheelbarrows and sent them to Yu Xiaotian for Yu Xiaotian to inspect.

After Yu Xiaotian looked at these unicycles, he was quite disappointed, because there were not many unicycle applications in the south, and the styles of unicycles made by these craftsmen did not meet his requirements, and when these unicycles were actually used, they were still

It seems very clumsy, the center of gravity is not easy to grasp, and the balance is not very good. It is more laborious to push, and the user will soon be tired.

Even though most of the users are slaves and hard laborers, in such a project, Yu Xiaotian still feels that providing some convenient tools for them to use is not to sympathize with those hard laborers and slaves, but to effectively improve efficiency.

, repair the road as soon as possible.

So Yu Xiaotian had no choice but to go into battle himself. Drawing on the shape of a rooster cart that was more commonly used in rural areas before the 1970s that he had seen in his memory, he drew several structural diagrams of a unicycle.

Possibly adjust the center of gravity so that the unicycle is easier to control after loading goods and consumes less energy. This chicken-gong cart is also a unicycle in itself. It is easy to manufacture and is more suitable for use on rugged roads.

use.

Originally, bearings had not been invented in this era. The axles of wheelbarrows like this were reluctant to be made of iron. They were made of hard iron pear wood or lychee wood and were lubricated with a little oil.

, the friction itself is very large, and it is very laborious to push. If the center of gravity is not well controlled, it will not only be difficult to push, but also easy to roll over.

So the carpentry workshop rushed out a few more wheelbarrows based on several drawings drawn by Yu Xiaotian. This time, it basically reached Yu Xiaotian's satisfaction. Although this thing was a bit crude, it was still better than the previous batch.

The wheelbarrows that came out were lighter and easier to control, and after tests, this wheelbarrow, which was transformed from a chicken-gong cart, could carry two hundred to three hundred kilograms of goods at a time, and could be pushed by one person. Basically, it reached Yu Xiao's point of view.

God’s request.

Listening to the squeaking and frictional sound of the wheelbarrow being pushed, Yu Xiaotian felt that it would be great if bearings could be manufactured now!

Not to mention these civilian vehicles, after using bearings, they will become much lighter and faster. If used on a gun carriage, the gun carriage will become more convenient and move much faster.

Seawolves originally lacked animal power. In the past, when the Eastern Tatars were not in rebellion, the Ming Dynasty could still introduce some Mongolian horses to meet military needs. However, now Liaodong has been occupied by the Jiannu, and the Mongols have been subdued by the Jiannu, making the Ming Dynasty

After losing its important horse supply place, Ming Dynasty's horses have become very expensive, and most of them are used in the army.

The South has dense water and is not suitable for cavalry sports. Coupled with the climate, even the military rarely equips horses, and rich people are not willing to serve such animals too much, making it difficult to find useful horses in the South.

It is available, and the price is ridiculously high.

Therefore, the Sea Wolf has always been short of horses and can only use cattle as the animal power to pull vehicles. However, the artillerymen in the war barracks are obviously not suitable to use cattle as the animal power to pull the cannon. Although the cattle are powerful, they move clumsily.

Not to mention, he is too slow and is easily frightened. Once on the battlefield, he will be easily frightened.

Therefore, Sea Wolf's artillery can only use manpower instead of horses to pull the artillery.

Even if Yu Xiaotian now leads the carpenters and blacksmiths to create a gun carriage that is much lighter than the artillery carriage currently used in the mainland of the Ming Dynasty on land, and has greatly reduced the weight of the cannon, but when such a gun carriage is used

, still seems very heavy and clumsy.

Even the lightweight twelve-pound mountain howitzers they currently equip for use in military camps are not very heavy. Every time they march in the field, each gun must be equipped with thirty gunners to tow these cannons. That's it.

, it was still impossible for the artillery truck to keep up with the team. After walking down a little distance, the artillerymen were all exhausted. When it came time to fight, this kind of artillery was still a set-up and retreat artillery. Pushing the artillery was also a strenuous job. Artillerymen

It can be said that it is very, very hard.

Therefore, bearings are also a very urgent need for Xiaotian. Once bearings are manufactured, the friction between the wheels and axles will be greatly reduced when the artillery carriage is moving, making the artillery carriage move smoothly.

time, reducing a lot of manpower consumption and saving the artillery's physical strength so that they can devote themselves to combat.

There is no way to replace animal-powered war horses with humans. You must know that in the Napoleonic era, an artillery company only had 110 horses that pulled cannons. Such a number of horses, Yu Xiaotian can't even think of it now.

I dare to think that even if he gathered all the horses in the territory he currently controls, he would probably only have thirty or forty horses, not even enough horses for an artillery platoon.

Looking at the wheelbarrow, Yu Xiaotian took out his notebook and wrote down the bearings. However, if you want to produce bearings, you must at least solve the problem of bearing steel. The steel used for bearings must use high carbon steel at worst.

It also needs to be quenched. It is impossible to make things like bearings from raw and wrought iron today.

Thinking of this, Yu Xiaotian couldn't help but lamented again. When will he be able to produce steel by himself? It seems that the problem of steelmaking must be solved as soon as possible. Only by solving this problem can we break through the current problems of all parties.

The various bottlenecks formed have enabled his industrial development to achieve new breakthroughs.

As for too high-end steel-making furnaces, he definitely can't build them now. So even if it's an earth-based blast furnace, it's more polluting, more wasteful, and the product quality is slightly worse. It's still acceptable. At most, it's a step-by-step process. After the industry develops to a certain level,

It’s not too late to upgrade technology.

I thought that the problem would be solved after the chicken bus variant unicycle was developed, but the carpentry workshop gave Yu Xiaotian feedback that was not very good.

Making this kind of chicken bus is not too difficult for a carpenter's workshop. Even the stupidest carpenter can make the frame, and it is guaranteed that one or two hundred of them will be made in no time.

But when it comes to making wheels, we have encountered problems. Making wheels in this era is a specialized craft, and not just any carpenter can do it. If you want to make wheels that are strong, durable, and have good roundness, you must have a specialized craftsman.

wheel-making craftsmen to do it.

The wheels of this era were basically made of wood. Iron was rarely used to make the wheels. At most, some wrought iron sheets and iron nails were used to strengthen the wheels, but the main material was still made of wood. For

The wood requirements are also relatively high.

If you let an ordinary carpenter make the wheel, the wheel will not be durable, the load-bearing capacity will be poor, and the axle will break easily.

Therefore, we must use specialized wheel-making craftsmen to do this, but the problem lies here. Seawolf does not have enough wheel-making craftsmen. Among the carpentry workshops, there are two on Nanyue Island who can make wheels.

, there is only one craftsman who can make wheels in Tamsui City, including the chicken coop, and there is only one craftsman who is specialized in making wheels.

These craftsmen who make wheels are not usually too busy. They mainly make some wheels for artillery carts. The wheels used for the gun carriages of naval guns are all small wheels. This matter is easier to handle, but the artillery carts used by soldiers

The wheels of vehicles used for transporting goods must be large, which is more troublesome. They must be strong, have strong load-bearing capacity, and have good roundness.