When Zhu Hongsan heard this, he thought of the railway. He used to see that there were small trains in the steel mill, transporting various goods in the factory. Now that the scale of the industrial zone has been expanded, it is really not cost-effective to use manpower to transport it.

Zhu Hongsan looked at the terrain, then squatted down and looked at the ground. It was close to the river bank, and it was covered with sandy land. I wonder if it could withstand the load capacity of simple tracks.

Zhu Hongsan said to Liu Dali: "The transportation team cannot occupy so much manpower. The limited manpower must be put into production. I think the land here is very strong, so build a track."

Liu Dali asked: "What is a track? Is it a road surface like a straight road?"

Zhu Hongsan shook his head and said, "Tie Niu, go find me two hardwood strips."

Zhu Hongsan put the hardwood strips on the ground, with a spacing of one meter, and said, "You see, use these wooden strips to lay two tracks in the factory, and then install solid wooden wheels as wide as those of the wooden strips under the carriage. With one person, you can easily push the 500-pound carriage."

All the craftsmen present were all craftsmen. After Zhu Hongsan said this, everyone realized that there was such a simple way. Liu Dali asked: "Master, Mutou is afraid that he can't bear the weight of the vehicle. What if he uses cast iron?"

Zhu Hongsan said: "It is better to use cast iron, but now we don't have so many raw materials, so we can only use hardwood for emergency response. In the future, the output of cast iron can of course be made of cast iron. The trucks for transporting goods can also be made of cast iron, and a truck can pull up tens of thousands of kilograms of goods at most."

Tie Niu said: "Your Majesty, you can do this. Let's wrap the hardwood in iron, which should be more durable than just using wooden strips."

Zhu Hongsan nodded and said, "What should you do specifically? How big a car and how wide a wooden strip should be experimented first. Iron cow, leave this matter to you."

Tie Niu nodded and wrote down.

Zhu Hongsan looked again and found that there was nothing he needed to solve in the factory. Some things could not be solved with current productivity. For example, the power problem, all factories could only be built along the river, because they could not do without hydraulic power, so they would need animal power to stay away.

Zhu Hongsan sighed. There is no rubber now, so he can't get a steam engine. It seems that he will find an opportunity to meet the Flang Ji people in Macau and see if rubber is planted in Nanyang.

The next step is to take a bus to the gunpowder factory twenty miles away. Tieniu called a few carriages from outside and took everyone to the gunpowder factory.

The gunpowder factory was built near Tongsha Park in later generations. There are several hills and rivers passing by. It is very hidden and suitable for building a gunpowder factory.

In the early days of the factory construction, Zhu Hongsan formulated a strict management system for the gunpowder factory. There are as many as a dozen safety regulations. Even the workplace is strictly prohibited from wearing animal fur and silk products. Production workers are only allowed to wear linen clothes.

At the same time, the manufacturing workshop and the loading workshop are strictly divided. When entering these two workshops, you must go through a body search. It is strictly forbidden to bring some fire into it.

In this way, two explosion accidents were caused before the New Year. Fortunately, the safety regulations played a role. There were no large number of casualties, but only more than a dozen workers were killed.

Zhu Hongsan and his party changed into linen work clothes at the door and passed the spray equipment at the door to reduce static electricity. Only then did they enter the gunpowder manufacturing workshop.

Zhu Hongsan saw that the gunpowder workshop did not use hydraulic power because the place was too far from the river, and gunpowder manufacturing was not a heavy physical work.

The manufacturing workshop also uses assembly line production, and try to subdivide the production process. Each worker is only responsible for one process. This can increase the production speed while working skillfully. Another thing is that no one knows the complete production process of gunpowder, and even if someone wants to learn it secretly, it cannot be done.

Zhu Hongsan looked at more than ten processes such as purification, stirring, filtration, drying, cutting, grinding, polishing, etc., and Zhu Hongsan nodded with satisfaction and asked, "Old Duan, how much gunpowder can you produce in this workshop a day?"

Duan Changyou said: "There are a total of 1,000 people in this gunpowder production workshop. If the raw materials are sufficient, it can produce 2,000 kilograms of gunpowder a day. There are two workshops like this in the entire factory, which can produce 6,000 kilograms of gunpowder a day."

Zhu Hongsan calculated that one cannon requires three kilograms of gunpowder to shoot at one time. Even if ten cannons are fired in a battle, it is only 30 kilograms of gunpowder. If you hold six thousand kilograms of gunpowder, you can use 200 cannons at one time, the amount of musket used has not been counted.

The muskets seem to use less gunpowder, but they can't hold back the number. Zhu Hongsan estimates that the production of the gunpowder factory can be used for one regiment in one battle. One regiment is fifty-four artillery, and if each gun fires ten times, it will be 1,620 kilograms of gunpowder. With the musket, it will be almost a battle.

It seems that the output of gunpowder will be enough. Now I have only two regiments, and the next step is to expand it to ten regiments and 30,000 people. This amount of gunpowder is not enough for one training.

Zhu Hongsan thought of this and asked, "Old Duan, what should I do if I want to increase my production?"

Old Duan Tou Duan often said: "There are only two ways, one gives me enough raw materials and the other gives me human hands."

These two conditions are not realistic now. Now all the toilets in Dongguan County are almost twice, and some saltpeter has been entered from Yunnan and Guizhou, which is enough to consume the gunpowder factory. The same is true for manpower. He lacks people here, and even more so for the steel factory. It seems that there are many problems.

Zhu Hongsan said: "I will ask Tong Yangjia to solve the problem for you. In half a month, northern refugees will come, and the manpower can solve the problem. The saltpeter will not be able to be done until the magistrate of Feng County and others become the prefect. After all, there are millions of people in Guangzhou and countless toilets, which should be able to alleviate the gap in raw materials."

Next, I went to the drug loading workshop. This workshop has the most people, with only one factory in total, with more than 2,000 people here. This place divides the finished gunpowder into gunpowder and gunpowder for packing.

The gun is simple to use. First, take a one-inch thick wooden board. There are sixty-four holes of the same size on the wooden board, and use a cardboard to mattify the hole. Then, put lead bullets into the hole, then add gunpowder, and smooth out the excess gunpowder with a trowel. Then remove the pads below. The gunpowder and lead bullets fall into the oil paper bag below.

Then in the next process, others used beeswax to seal the oil paper, then applied lard and butter to waterproof, so that a fixed-load lead bullet was completed.

Zhu Hongsan saw that this method was very good. In the past, craftsmen used to use hand-packing one by one, but he didn't expect that using a few simple tools would greatly improve the production efficiency.

Zhu Hongsan asked: "Who came up with this method? It's great."

Duan Changyou said, "This is what my eldest son thought of."

Zhu Hongsan said: "It's great. I'll give your eldest son a hundred taels of silver. From now on, any craftsman who improves his production technology will be rewarded with 100 taels of silver."

Old Duan Tou is now rich and doesn't like a hundred taels of silver, but Zhu Hongsan's personal reward is rare. In this way, his son entered Zhu Hongsan's eyes and became prosperous.

Old Duan Tou was so happy that he couldn't even close his mouth and nodded to thank him.

Below is the charging production line of artillery fire* medicine bags. This is similar to a musket, but no shells are placed inside, and artillery ammunition is separated. The medicine bags are divided into two types, one is a three-pound gunpowder bag used for solid bullets. This one is a full charge for range. The other is a two-pound gunpowder pack, which is prepared for shotguns. After all, the range of shotguns is only four hundred meters, and it is wasted with three pounds of full charge.

Zhu Hongsan did an experiment. It was also a shotgun. Three kilograms of gunpowder, paper and pen, and two kilograms of gunpowder had an extra range of twenty meters, which was really not worth the loss. Therefore, it was stipulated that the shotgun only used two kilograms of medicine bags. In this way, three dummies wearing heavy armor could be penetrated from 200 meters away.

Duan Changyou said on the side: "Prince, we are conducting a new type of gunpowder experiment. Should we go and have a look?"

"Oh? Have you made new gunpowder?" Zhu Hongsan was surprised. You should know that this formula is the ultimate black gunpowder. If it is powerful, it will not be black gunpowder. It will not be until nitrate and glycerin come out.

Zhu Hongsan thought they had made nitric acid and glycerin, so he asked, "Where are you, take me to see it."

Duan Changyou brought his group to the outside of the factory, and there was a single-family house near the river. This should be the laboratory of New Gunpowder.
Chapter completed!