Chapter 48 Steam Turbines
After staying in the city for 15 days, Ye Xing returned to the military camp. All the special training personnel who were on vacation came back.
A "Donghai County Poster" was prepared for each barracks, and 15 special training teams were replenished, and then Li Qifeng was trained. Now he aims to cultivate masters, so it is all the untold martial arts and internal skills in Qingyun Sect.
Of course, the special forces members did not know that this was the Qingyun Sect’s martial arts, but were just grateful for the selfless teaching of the two commanders.
It turned out that 11 people left in the military camp were added to the special training team, and the remaining 92 people were trained by Ye Xing.
Ye Xing's training is completely different. It is mainly about combat command and logistics support. The goal is to cultivate commanders and staff officers in the army. Ye Xing does not have this knowledge and has hired several retired officers from the capital with high salaries, all of which were invited by Qingyun Sect.
We also built a large-scale construction in the military camp to build a military academy. All the instructors were invited from the capital to teach combat command and logistics support. The various experiences taught by these instructors must be true strength.
In every class, Ye Xing requires all personnel to record the key points with paper and pen, and to express their own opinions after class.
What is Ye Xing’s philosophy? It is to make every effort to ensure his own safety and have the primary combat concept. It is definitely not a theory of large-scale corps operation, but a combat method with small-scale, guerrilla warfare and annihilation war as the core.
Unlike this era where the focus of fighting big battles is on the scale of tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands of people, what Ye Xing wants is a combat method that focuses on assault beheading and targets the core of the enemy.
In fact, Ye Xing knew that his city guard was only a thousand people, and it was impossible for a large army to fight. Moreover, there was no major war in the three thousand years of peace in the Song Dynasty, and there was no example of a major war, and there was no need to study this content.
In addition to listening to the class by himself, Ye Xing also joined the discussion, wrote various combat skills ideas, and then discussed with the instructors and students. The academic atmosphere of this military academy is extremely free. Of course, the training that soldiers should have every day is necessary, and officers must also participate in the training.
After they were on track, Ye Xing found that two months had passed, so he decided to deal with the matter of the villa. Although he had returned to Xingchen Villa several times, he did not ask about the details.
Ye Xing asked Lin Tie to gather all the brothers in the villa, and the 12 people reported on their work for the four months.
Lin Tie was in charge of all the affairs of Xingchen Villa. The villa's economic expenses were mainly staff salaries and steam engine development costs. For safety, the walls around the villa were reinforced and raised several feet high. Now the walls are ten feet high. The outside is completely unaware of the situation inside, and only see that there are many wooden houses on the hillside of the villa.
The textile machinery improvement work that Lin Haotian and Ye Yunshan were responsible for has improved many details, mainly because the machinery is more stable, the problem of disconnection has been greatly improved, and the production of cotton cloth is denser, and the work of the four textile women workers has been easier.
Nowadays, linen can be weaved. Compared with cotton, linen is more troublesome, but it is also more durable, so it is useful.
The other nine people were divided into three groups to develop the steam turbine using Ye Xing's first draft design, and now it has been successfully developed.
In fact, the steam engine is simpler, but Ye Xing knows that the steam turbine is more practical and must be developed in one step, as long as it is constantly improved. After Ye Xing's super brain has made extremely fine deductions. As long as the accuracy of the parts meets the requirements, it will generally not be a problem, only details are left.
Everyone came to the factory. The small one was only the size of a table, and it looked completely inconspicuous. This steam turbine was mainly made of coal bulbs, with a combustion chamber in the middle, surrounded by thick iron cast water cylinders. The pure water in the heating water cylinder produced high-pressure water vapor, and was guided to a sealed impeller cylinder with iron pipes. There were impellers of different sizes of 12 levels rotating. After the water vapor became low pressure, it was introduced into the next level impeller cylinder. Finally, the water vapor condensed into water and pressed into the high-pressure water cylinder again.
After three months of hard work, they overcame countless difficulties and continued to improve to this situation. This is the latest prototype, which is now used to drive the lathe.
A prototype has been connected to the textile machine, which is more powerful than the water flow and faster, and can increase the production speed by 8 times. Now the textile machines are driven by steam turbines. One of the four female workers looks at the furnace to add coal and remove slag, the other looks at the line, and two packing cloths. They only work during the day and rest at night, and the output is still 4 times the original. They have to purchase a large amount of raw materials and transport the finished products every day.
Ye Xing carefully observed all the working processes of the steam turbine and put forward several ideas and opinions.
First, coal burning is very slow, coal must be washed and impurities removed. This is too troublesome, so it needs to be burned. This oil is oil, which is mineral oil flowing out of the ground. From the geographical perspective, we know that there are some in the western part of Donghai County. We arranged for Lin Tie to buy all the oil-producing areas as our own oil-producing base and do it immediately tomorrow.
The second is to design an automatic blowing device. As long as the cylinder works, it will even blow the blowing to make the combustion more fully. This is very easy.
The third is to design an automatic feeder to automatically deliver fuel for a period of time, and no one needs to deal with the fuel delivery and slag removal work.
Fourth, the problem of steam leakage has not been completely solved. The processing accuracy of the cylinder is improved, and the tolerance coordination must be higher. The test is to find a rubber plant to extract high-strength sealant. Go find this immediately and ask foreign merchants. There should be some overseas.
Fifth, the production of impeller blades is the most difficult. We must constantly improve the shape of the angle processing and the strength of the material itself. This is the most core technology of the steam turbine. There is no need to make any major changes in the future. You can only continuously improve the impeller blades. This design is to reduce the complexity of the development, concentrate energy, and save money.
Ye Xing asked the nine people to immediately improve the machine tool, improve processing accuracy, and find lighter alloy materials to make impellers.
Ye Xing had a meal with his mother, talked about some of his experiences during this period, and asked newspapers to be delivered to the city every issue, so that women could read the newspapers, and everyone in the villa could also see more.
Ye Xing checked everyone's martial arts practice, but they made little progress. Everyone was not thinking about practicing. This problem has to be solved by finding a way. If you don't have the ability to protect yourself, all the results will eventually become something in someone else's pocket.
Ye Xing asked Lin Chuo to put down his work and immediately returned to Yunhai Village. He found all the children over 10 years old in the village, so that they could learn skills here and cultivate their own people to become apprentice technicians.
Boys and girls can do it. As long as you are willing, let them come, and you can work hard to cultivate your children to develop a greater career. Moreover, adults who are willing to come in the village will also come and arrange some work that requires supervision from their own people.
Ye Xing asked Lin Tie and Mu Zilang to purchase ownership of the oil production area and asked Lin Liang to be responsible for the construction of the villa. Before the children arrived, the construction of the house was completed. The remaining six people and Ye Xing continued to improve the steam turbine and lathe according to Ye Xing's idea.
Ye Xing and the seven others worked hard for 8 days to improve their work, and conducted various details of the shape of the blade wheel, and also found few rubbers from foreign merchants. After processing them into sealing rings, the steam turbine made a qualitative leap. The key is that the efficiency of the steam turbine has been greatly improved.
Lin Tie sent back oil from the Xijiang River. After trial, it was indeed very effective. It has higher combustion heat and efficiency than burning coal. What is more important is that feeding materials is extremely convenient and there is no need to remove slag.
It has been raining every day these days. Ye Xing returned to the military camp several times, but he did not stay there. He mainly solved various problems in the villa.
Ye Xing asked Lin Liang to issue a notice to recruit people, build the expansion road to Donghai City and pave it with stones, so that it will not rain or mud, and build the road to the military camp.
When Lin Tie came back, he brought back more than a dozen barrels of oil and had purchased a large area of wasteland that no one wanted, which produced oil there. Mu Zilang had recruited more than a dozen villagers nearby to help collect oil, but the output was not high.
Ye Xing asked him to deal with it like this first, and wait for a while before solving the production problem. He could only transport some of them in a few days to maintain the normal use of the textile factory.
Chapter completed!