newbobooks Chapter 235 Building a Rapid Response Force
Chapter 235 Building a Rapid Response Force
Chapter 235 Building a Rapid Response Force
After learning that the most suitable steel for bearings has been found.
Xiao Qi decisively ordered this steel to be used as special steel for bearings, and began to ask craftsmen to develop large bearings for hydraulic transmission shafts and steam engines to prepare for the future production of bearings for train wheels.
At the same time, textile machinery made of steel was also built, and the waterwheel power system was connected for trial operation.
Hearing the news, Xiao Qi hurried to check the water conservancy workshop built by the foundry bureau by a river.
When he got there, Xiao Qi discovered that although the looms made of new steel can already replace human labor, the speed has also been greatly improved.
But compared with the machines he occasionally saw on the TV news in his previous life, the gap is simply heaven and earth.
The machines I saw in my previous life were quite sophisticated and extremely fast. A textile worker could take care of several machines as he shuttled back and forth.
The weaving machine he sees now is very simple, and there are several craftsmen looking after two craftsmen who are familiar with the weaving steps, busy on this machine.
After looking at it for a long time, Xiao Qi didn't give any suggestions for improvement because he didn't understand the working principle of the loom, but before leaving, Xiao Qi still ordered to reward these craftsmen.
And set a research direction for them, which is to try to make the new steel loom less troublesome, and steadily improve the loom to make the machine run faster and make it easier for operators to operate.
Although Xiao Qi didn't understand the working principle of the loom, it didn't delay him from understanding that installing bearings on some important transmission shafts of the loom would greatly improve the efficiency of the loom.
So he asked people to measure all the transmission shafts of the loom that needed bearings, and set the size, and the important parts of the loom would be produced according to this size in the future.
Xiao Qi ordered people to send these dimensions to the senior craftsmen who developed the bearings, and asked them to develop bearings of these dimensions. After they were successfully developed, they would be mass-produced like carriage bearings.
After returning to the palace, Xiao Qi felt that every time a problem was found, he had to measure it one by one, and it was not enough to ask someone to produce that kind of bearing after it was over.
So Xiao Qi came up with the idea of the globally popular standard parts in his previous life. Of course, with the current technology, it is impossible to produce standard parts of the size in his previous life.
The standard parts that need to be formulated now have nothing to do with the size, but are related to the largest and smallest bearings developed. Xiao Qi had to postpone the formulation of standard parts.
Instead, let those senior craftsmen in bearing research and development first develop and produce qualified minimum-size and maximum-size bearings. After these two bearings are produced, bearings of sizes between these two bearings must be able to be produced at will.
At this time, the bearing sizes of various sizes are worked out, and the transmission shaft on any machine after that is produced according to the size of the inner diameter of the bearing, so that the preliminary standard parts are formed.
As for the various standard parts of tens of thousands of sizes in the future, Xiao Qi didn't have the time to worry about them. He handed them over to those senior craftsmen for discussion and research. When the results were reported to him, he ordered the nationwide implementation and that's it.
There is another important thing that Xiao Qi has not forgotten, and that is the development of steel for train rails, steel for wheels, and spring steel plates and steel for springs needed for trains.
These things are very important, but Xiao Qi also knows that these things cannot be made in a day or two, so he can only write them down and ask the craftsmen to develop them.
Not only are there things that give Xiao Qi a headache, but there are also things that make him happy. The four-wheeled carriage can already produce very good bearings and shock absorbing springs.
The only thing that makes Xiao Qi feel pity is that the current roads are really not good, the whole world is full of dirt roads, once it rains, once a loaded carriage passes by, there will be deep wheel marks on the road.
When the weather is good and the soil dries up, the wheels driving on the road behind will change direction, and the wheels of the carriage driving in the original ruts will be damaged.
This made Xiao Qi very much want to build those roads in the previous life, forget about asphalt roads, there is simply no way to find so much asphalt, even if oil can be found in this era, how to refine it is a big problem.
Then he can only pave cement roads, but he doesn't know how cement is made.
Although this matter made Xiao Qi scratch his head for a long time, he had no choice but to give up without a clue, no longer thinking about this matter, but thinking about producing as many carriages as possible.
To replace the two-wheeled carriages in the army with the fastest speed, Xiao Qi has his own idea. He plans to replace all the transport vehicles in the army with four-wheeled carriages, and a large amount of equipment is required.
He wants to build the world's first ground rapid response force, which consists of [-] elite cavalry, [-] elite infantry, [-] musketeers and [-] Vulcan troops.
Such an army must be equipped with enough four-wheeled carriages. Once there is a war, this army must be able to guarantee [-] cavalry, and be able to take half of the infantry to travel quickly in four-wheeled carriages.
There must also be enough four-wheeled carriages with food, grass and ammunition supplies, and artillery trebuchets to rush to the location of the battle as quickly as possible to support the Song army to attack the enemy.
As soon as he thought about it, he did it. In the end, Xiao Qi selected [-] soldiers from the Changsheng Battalion, the cavalry was still [-], the infantry became [-], and the Vulcan Army and Musketeers were still [-] each.
After selecting these soldiers, Xiao Qi named this army 'The First Flying Army of the Changsheng Battalion of the Great Song Dynasty'. This kind of army is too powerful and can only be directly controlled by him, King Zhenbei.
If Xiao Qi couldn't get away from the battle, he would appoint a temporary commander of the army. After the battle, the military power of the temporary commander would be handed over automatically after the troops returned.
Xiao Qi had to be careful, because once such an army got out of control, it would definitely wipe out the existence of a surrounding country at will, and even cause big troubles for Song Dynasty.
After the formation of the First Flying Army of the Changsheng Battalion, Xiao Qi also had things to do. He formulated many quick-reaction tactics based on the characteristics of this era, and let this army train.
In order to let the soldiers get familiar with it as soon as possible, when carriages were still scarce, Xiao Qi also sent the carriage from his mansion to the First Flying Army so that more soldiers could be trained.
Of course, these training items are indispensable to the test of various terrains on the performance of the four-wheeled carriage. For this reason, Xiao Qi also transferred several artisans who made cars and produced bearings to follow, so as to find out the shortcomings and improve them as soon as possible.
During these days, the rubber saplings and large quantities of rubber that Xiao Qi thought about day and night were also transported to the industrial bases in various seaports.
Xiao Qi didn't know how to refine those rubbers, so he had to order people to store the rubber in large barrels in several industrial parks built by ports.
He ordered people to divide the large number of rubber saplings and not take them to Qiongzhou Island and Guangxi in the south for planting. I don't know if Qin Tulin is getting ruthless or if the conditions given by Da Song are too generous.
Nearly a thousand natives from the island countries in the South China Sea who were able to take care of those rubber saplings were transported to Da Song with boats. Xiao Qi directly ordered these people to be treated as nationals of the Song Dynasty and let them plant and maintain these rubber saplings.
At the same time, Xiao Qi also summoned people from Qiongzhou Island and Guangdi, who are willing to learn how to plant and collect rubber, and offer high wages, as long as you are willing to go, you will be treated very well.
Of course, no live rubber saplings have been planted yet, and Xiao Qi did not vigorously search for people, but just casually announced that he would recruit people. Of course, Xiao Qi made it clear that these workers would work in the woods in the future, and there would be certain dangers.
Although Xiao Qi felt that planting trees in the forest and cutting rubber in the future would inevitably encounter some dangerous beasts, snakes and insects in the jungle.
But for those people living in Qiongzhou Island and Guangxi, the dangers that Xiao Qi was worried about were not commonplace for them, but they often encountered or heard about them.
So there are a lot of people signing up to do this kind of work. Xiao Qi was not worried when he heard the news. As long as you are willing to come, the people of Song Dynasty will give you the best as long as you are diligent. Isn’t it just planting saplings a few years ago? No rubber cut.
Our Great Song now has enough money and food, as long as you are willing to work, Da Song is not afraid that his people can make money easily!
Xiao Qi is not only recruiting these people who will plant and harvest rubber in the future, but also recruiting workers for the industrial parks built next to the seaports. The first recruits are the workers of the rubber factory.
Because as long as the rubber trees are successfully planted, he will be able to obtain the rubber refining method, and then the rubber production plant can start production immediately.
Xiao Qi can be said to be busier now than when he was leading the army and fighting, and he is so busy that his feet don't touch the ground.
Zhang Xiu has long been used to Xiao Qi's emphasis on having endless things to do, but Yong Jia doesn't understand why he still can't find someone to tell him a story when he doesn't have to fight outside now!
For this reason, she often complained to Zhang Xiu that Xiao Qi was not at home. Zhang Xiu was speechless by this girl's thoughts, and reprimanded her:
"It's fourteen after the new year, and you still pester your husband telling stories all day like a child. If you don't grow up, don't consummate the house with your husband when you are fifteen. Let's talk about it when you grow up."
Yongjia suddenly became dumb, and said to himself that you don't know what your husband was worried about outside when you gave birth, but I have long been looking forward to consummating the house with my husband and enjoying such treatment!
How can it be possible to consummate the house after the age of 15!
Seeing Yongjia's frightened cry, Zhang Xiu immediately laughed, and said, "If you stop pestering your husband to tell stories after you are fourteen, and when you are fifteen, you and your husband will be consummated."
Only then did Yong Jia let out a sigh of relief, he was really afraid of his sister Zhang Xiu, not to mention that he was the emperor's daughter, even his father could not do anything about her sister Zhang Xiu.
If you say it lightly, you will not hear it, but if you say it seriously, you will just play around with that walking stick!
Yongjia sometimes wonders if his father is out of his mind, what to do with Zhang Xiu's walking stick, now it's all right, people don't dump you very much, now they don't even talk to you, and even I get beaten up !
Yongjia also has his own happy things, he hugs Xiao Qin and runs around all day long, her second mother is more like a real mother than Zhang Xiu's real mother.
Now Xiao Qi's mount, Heitantou, already has three descendants of ponies.
All of them are in the stables of Zhenbei Prince's Mansion. I don't know if these three ponies are the descendants of Heitantou, they are very close to Xiao Qi, Zhang Xiu and Xiao Qin.
Even Yongjia is only slightly better than others, unless she is holding Xiao Qin, the three ponies will take the initiative to run to her side to play.
This made Yongjia very depressed, but she didn't know what was going on, so she could only nag in front of Zhang Xiu, saying that these horses were not good, they were too powerful, and they would only curry favor with the powerful.
Zhang Xiu couldn't be happier every time, she vaguely knew that it was because Heitantou was close to Xiao Qi, this Heitantou was also very smart, in the past, no one was allowed to touch him except Xiao Qi and Zhang Xiu.
Now as long as you hold Xiao Qin and go to it, this black charcoal head is very cute, even Xiao Qin doesn't get angry when he pulls off his mane, and it will kick when people get close to it, let alone touching it. unwilling.
On this day, Xiao Qi was reading the report on the progress of the training sent by the First Flying Army in the study room. It said that the four-wheeled carriages are now equipped with [-] vehicles, which is more than half, and will soon reach the [-] vehicles required by the commander-in-chief.
At this moment, Xiao Qi suddenly heard the voice of the system, which rang in his head.
"Ding! This specific check-in task: find rubber seeds and successfully plant them in Da Song has been completed."
"Ding! The reward after completing this specific task: the original refining method of rubber products has been issued."
"This task is a specific task. After completion, there are only rewards, and there is no sign-in and upgrade experience."
"Ding! This specific task has been completed!"
Xiao Qi was a little puzzled when he heard that the system's voice had disappeared so quickly this time.
Did the system forget something today?
Wasn't there a sentence before that the next time a specific task is started, the host needs to activate it by itself?
Just when Xiao Qi was wondering.
"Ding! The host triggers a specific task."
"This specific check-in mission is: to build the Victory Battalion into the fastest marching army in the world."
"The requirements for completing the task are: build the Changsheng Battalion of the Great Song Dynasty into the only army in the world that can follow the main force and provide logistics supplies."
"This task is a specific reward task. Reward after completing the task: How to make cement."
"This task is a specific task. After completion, there are only rewards, and there is no sign-in and upgrade experience."
"The specific check-in task is an additional check-in task, and the system will always default that the host agrees to accept it. The duration of this task is one year."
"Ding, if this task fails, the host will not be able to obtain the reward of opening the cement production method again within ten years."
Xiao Qi was overjoyed when he heard that the system released the second specific task one after another!
This is the first time the system has continuously sent specific tasks to itself, and it is also the cement problem that he is currently worrying about.
It won't take long for Da Song's road to become the best road in the world!
Xiao Qi didn't bother to say hello to Zhang Xiu, and immediately came out and pulled out Heitan's head, and led his soldiers straight to the palace.
(End of this chapter)