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Three large wooden water turbines can provide power to three factories at the same time. If we follow the previous method, such water turbines seem to only be able to provide power to one hydraulic machine.

But Yu Xiaotian still found a way to solve this problem. After repeated thinking, he thought of the transmission method of the celestial axis.

The sky axis is actually a long iron or steel axis that is erected. If it is placed on the ground, it is the earth axis. This kind of thing is a power method often used in factories before electric motors are widely used.

Along the celestial axis, the machine can be placed under the celestial axis. There will be a pulley installed at a certain distance on the celestial axis, with a belt hung on it. When the machine needs power, hang the belt on the runner of the machine.

Provide power to the machine to start running.

As for the belt, there is definitely no rubber belt like that of later generations, so we can only find a way to solve it. After many experiments, we finally found that deerskin is a good substitute. Taiwan just happens to produce deerskin locally, and in large quantities, so the belt is

The problem was solved on the spot without causing too much trouble.

This method solves the problem that a waterwheel can only provide power to one machine in the past, so that a large waterwheel can provide power for many machines. As long as the power can meet the needs, it can be added by adding a sky axis.

length to provide power for more machines.

In this way, a considerable-scale factory can be built, and larger-scale mechanized production can also be carried out.

It can be said that this hydraulic turbine and sky shaft system has laid a solid foundation for the future mechanization process of Sea Wolf. At least it is much more convenient than using animal power and manpower.

However, building such a hydraulic plant is not simple, because there are too many problems involved, and Yu Xiaotian alone does not have the energy to do these things, and because of material problems,

Many parts need to be replaced by wood, and no one knows how strong it is.

So Yu Xiaotian transferred Blacksmith Zhang out of gunsmithing and became the chief engineer here, because after all, apart from him, the only one who knew the most about machinery was Blacksmith Zhang. The book about it that Yu Xiaotian originally produced

It has been nearly a year since I gave the mechanical notes to Blacksmith Zhang.

During this year, Zhang Tiejiang could be said to have plunged headlong into this notebook, drawing nourishment from it like a madman.

He was looking at this notebook while working in the gun shop. Now the overall management of the gun shop has been handed over to others, and he has become an idler, mainly responsible for some technical guidance, and mainly responsible for gun control.

Improvements are made to various tools used in operations and artillery operations.

After having this notebook, Zhang Tiejiang had a deeper understanding of mechanical knowledge. Not only did he begin to understand what was happening, but he also gradually understood why. Many things that he did not understand before were now gradually understood after seeing this.

After taking this note, I suddenly became enlightened and figured out the reason behind it.

In fact, many times, some technical problems are not insurmountable gaps. The key is that someone thinks of unexpected problems. Once you understand them and know the reasons, it will be much easier to solve them, so I named Zhang Tiejiang again.

This mechanical madman has made it much easier to solve some problems that even Yu Xiaotian found scratching his head.

After all, Blacksmith Zhang has profound blacksmithing experience and background, and his hands-on ability is so strong that Yu Xiaotian can’t even catch up with him. Therefore, in Yu Xiaotian’s opinion, some problems that are difficult to solve due to materials and processing are in the hands of Blacksmith Zhang.

It was actually able to be solved by Zhang Tiejiang.

In addition, the talents that Sea Wolf currently has in its hands are not only Zhang Tiejiang. Through the efforts of the past few years, Yu Xiaotian now has many skilled carpenters, stonemasons, and construction craftsmen. With Zhang Tiejiang

Come to preside over this matter, gather these experts together, and things that originally seemed difficult to do will gradually be overcome one by one through brainstorming.

This also makes the construction of this hydraulic plant less insurmountable. After construction starts later this year, the progress of the project here is still quite impressive.

In addition, human resources are relatively abundant now, not to mention financial resources. With the support of war dividends, there will naturally be no problems. A large amount of manpower and material resources have been invested on the construction site, making the progress of the project here move forward every day.

With the hard work of countless workers like moving ants, a dam was built in just over two months, and began to block the river water, and the reservoir began to store water.

As for the main building of the factory, it is not a problem. There is a large amount of wood readily available, and a wood drying plant and wood processing plant have been built in advance.

In addition, in order to build this factory, Hailang also used local materials from the surrounding areas and built a large brick kiln to bake bricks and tiles day and night to supply the factory.

Of course, in order to build this factory, Yu Xiaotian finally started to tinker with cement. It is not difficult to bake cement. The key is the construction of the cement kiln. Yu Xiaotian wants to build a large-scale cement kiln for future generations. Now it is still

It's not possible. We can only use local methods. First build a vertical earthen kiln. Everything is simple and simple, and we can start working first.

As for the raw materials, it is even simpler. You can find clay, limestone, and gypsum around fresh water. You only need to grind them and calcine them to make clinker, mix them with gypsum, and grind them into powder.

Now that the problem of the waterwheel can be easily solved, Yu Xiaotian asked the cannon foundry to cast some pig iron rollers to replace the original stone mills, and specifically crush the raw materials and grind them in the cement kiln.

Of course, fuel is a problem. The furnace temperature for burning cement needs to be very high, reaching more than 1,400 degrees. Using charcoal is obviously not enough, so coal is still used as the raw material.

However, there are no coal mines in Taiwan at this time. Even if there are coal mines, they cannot be found or developed for the time being. They can only be purchased from land for the time being.

However, Yu Xiaotian had already started preparing for the coal reserve more than a year ago. He purchased a large amount of coal from Fujian, transported it back to Tamsui City by ship, and specially selected a place to accumulate and store it.

Although there was a pause of half a year due to the war, they still have a considerable amount of coal in reserve, and burning cement is no longer a problem.

The biggest difficulty is still in the construction of the cement kiln, because the furnace temperature requirements are relatively high, and ordinary furnace temperatures are far beyond the reach. We must find ways to increase the furnace temperature.

Fortunately, they already have experience with this. They added a preheating furnace in front of the furnace to first heat the air blown into the furnace, and then blow it into the furnace with a blower. In this way, the furnace temperature can meet the requirements.

temperature.

Others definitely don't know about this, but Yu Xiaotian still understands these things. Even if he has never eaten pork, he probably knows how pigs run away, so he can still solve it by groping, but he can be sure that this native method

The method of launching a horse will definitely not produce good quality products, but his requirements are not very high for the time being. As long as he can burn cement, it can be dealt with if the quality is slightly lower. It is better than using clay and lime as a binder.

In addition, no one has experience in doing this, and it is impossible for him to burn cement himself. Workers must be trained, which also requires a relatively long process. After the workers gradually gain experience, they can build larger cement kilns in the future to produce more

Better quality and more cement.

However, ideals are full, but reality is often very skinny. Although the cement kiln was built, and then the materials were put into production, the results were very unsatisfactory. The quality of the fired cement was very poor, and even failed to solidify. What's more,

Not to mention being used as a construction adhesive.

After Yu Xiaotian personally led people to test the first cement produced, Yu Xiaotian was very speechless. These things that looked like cement had rough particles and were not fine enough. They solidified slowly and even failed to solidify.

Even the soil and cement they used before can't keep up.

This result made Yu Xiaotian very depressed. After careful consideration, he began to lead people to find the problem. Later, after repeatedly firing several kilns, he finally discovered the problem.

One is that the furnace temperature is not high enough, and the other is that there is a problem with the ratio of ingredients. After all, Yu Xiaotian is not an all-rounder. He only knows how to bake cement, but he does not remember the specific ratio of raw materials. He can only

After some trial and error, the proportions of the kiln cement fired in the early stage were seriously inappropriate, so the quality was definitely not good.

After they fired many kilns in succession, they finally produced cement that could solidify. Yu Xiaotian quickly asked the craftsmen to write down the proportions and took it for testing. They found that it finally worked.

In addition, Yu Xiaotian asked the craftsmen to adjust and improve the cement kiln structure and increase the temperature of the air blowing in front of the furnace, so that the product quality of the cement kiln was slightly satisfactory.

There is nothing Xiaotian can do about this, because all new things will inevitably have various problems during their initial experimental production, especially under his half-hearted leadership, the possibility of failure is very high.

higher.

Only through continuous experimentation can we make the required products, and early waste is inevitable.

After the successful experiment of copycat cement, the product quality of the cement kiln became more or less stable, and cement was gradually produced and transported to the construction site for use.

However, considering that the quality of the products fired in such earth-cement kilns is really not reassuring, Yu Xiaotian specifically instructed that every cement fired in the kiln must be sampled and tested to ensure that it can be used before it can be sent to the store.

Otherwise, the factory he built may not be guaranteed and it may become a scumbag project.

The island of Taiwan has to withstand the baptism of many typhoons every year. If a shoddy project is built, God knows what problems will occur. If the houses collapse and kill many skilled craftsmen, he will lose a lot of money!